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Meanings of atrociousness in English

Portuguese
atrocidade
Catalan
salvatgeria
Spanish
barbaridad

The quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane.

        atrocidade
        Usage of atrociousness in English
        1
        Then she told him her bitter story, in all its naked atrociousness.
        A Double Barrelled Detective Story
        2
        The very atrociousness of the deed rendered it incredible!
        The White Chief: A Legend of Northern Mexico
        3
        Unhappily, no film since Watchmen has started so well only to plummet so remorselessly into atrociousness and tedium.
        The Irish Times
        4
        The porters further desired, that justice might be done upon offenders, as the atrociousness of their crimes had deserved.
        The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part E. / From...
        5
        The atrociousness of the fact would dispose us rather to doubt the truth of the evidence on which it rests, however regular that appears.
        Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...
        Translations for atrociousness
        Spanish
        barbaridad
        Atrociousness through the time