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Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty.

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Definitions

  1. n. Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty.
  2. n. An atrocious or extremely cruel deed.
  3. n. the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
  4. n. an act of atrocious cruelty
  5. 1. Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty. 2. An atrocious or extremely cruel deed. The atrocities which attend a victory. Macaulay.
  6. n:100 n. the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane n. an act of atrocious cruelty