crime against humanity

Definitions

1. A very destructive and immoral act; later specifically, something causing widespread human misery or loss of life; an atrocity.
2. Something objectionable.
   colloquial, excessive, humorous

Equivalents

Examples

“The Holocaust was a terrible crime against humanity; it took the lives of 6 million Jews, 2 million Poles, and hundreds of thousands of Gypsies, homosexuals, Russians, and the elderly and disabled.”

“Be faithful to your friend that doth entrust you; remembring that perfidiousness or falseness to a friend, is a crime against humanity, and all society.”

“Courage remained a virtue. And that exploitation of courage, if I may be allowed to say⟳ a thing so obvious, was the essential tragedy of the War, which, as everyone now agrees, was a crime against humanity.”

“A Spanish judge⟳ has charged five suspected former leaders of the armed Basque separatist movement ETA with crimes against humanity for attacks carried out by the group after 2004 which killed 12 people.”

““Pineapple on pizza is a crime against humanity,” Leo's voice is flat. Which is weird, because he usually adds “Fight⟳ me” at the end⟳ of that declaration.”

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