All 4 Uses of
atrocity
in
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- He then asked me, suddenly, if I had observed any thing peculiar at the scene of the atrocity.†
*atrocity = an action that is exceptionally bad or cruel
- The police are confounded by the seeming absence of motive—not for the murder itself—but for the atrocity of the murder.†
- If the Frenchman in question is indeed, as I suppose, innocent of this atrocity, this advertisement which I left last night, upon our return home, at the office of 'Le Monde,' (a paper devoted to the shipping interest, and much sought by sailors,) will bring him to our residence.†
- I perfectly well know that you are innocent of the atrocities in the Rue Morgue.†
atrocities = actions that are exceptionally bad or cruel