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Definition
actions that are exceptionally bad or cruel
- In debriefings, war crimes investigators listened as POWs told of monstrous abuses and atrocities committed by the Japanese.p. 244.3
- In its rampage over the east, Japan had brought atrocity and death on a scale that staggers the imagination.p. 228.2
There are no more uses of "atrocities" in Unbroken - adapted for young adults.
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