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atrociousness

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a·tro·cious  (-trshs)
adj.
1. Extremely evil or cruel; monstrous: an atrocious crime.
2. Exceptionally bad; abominable: atrocious decor; atrocious behavior.
[From Latin atrx, atrc-, frightful, cruel; see ter- in Indo-European roots.]
a·trocious·ly adv.
a·trocious·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.atrociousnessatrociousness - the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
atrocity, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness
inhumaneness, inhumanity - the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others


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But shortly, and as far as my bewilderment allowed me to grasp its naive atrociousness, it was something like this: that no consideration, no delicacy, no tenderness, no scruples should stand in the way of a woman (who by the mere fact of her sex was the predestined victim of conditions created by men's selfish passions, their vices and their abominable tyranny) from taking the shortest cut towards securing for herself the easiest possible existence.
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