outrages

Acts provoking fury

Outrages are acts of extreme offense, violence, or violation—things that shock the conscience or transgress moral bounds: The report documented outrages committed against civilians.

As a verb, outrages means to deeply offend or enrage: The verdict outrages many who followed the trial.

Something outrageous provokes outrage.

reactions

indignation

Anger from mistreatment

  • furyIntense violent anger
  • wrathFierce, punishing anger
  • ireIntense fury

anger · resentment · umbrage · rage · uproar · outcry · backlash · condemnation · protest · denunciation

offenses

affront

Deliberate public insult

scandal · disgrace · abuse · provocation · disrespect · violation · infraction · wrongdoing · misconduct · impropriety

atrocities

atrocity

Unforgivable mass cruelty

horror · barbarism · savagery · war crime · genocide · pogrom · carnage · slaughter · persecution · inhumanity

Categories
Opposites
emotional effect

outragescalms

Reduces agitation

soothes · pacifies · placates · mollifies · appeases

moral reaction

outragespleases

Causes contentment in another

delights · gratifies · satisfies · edifies · uplifts

intensity of offense

outragespetty annoyances

trifles · peccadilloes · inconveniences · nuisances

Phrases
Family

outrage, outrageous, outraged, outrageously, outraging, outrageousness

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