crime against humanity
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Noun
crime against humanity (plural crimes against humanity)
- (now chiefly law) A very destructive and immoral act; later specifically, something causing widespread human misery or loss of life; an atrocity.
- 1629, Richard Baxter, Christian Directory, IV.25:
- 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.
- 1929, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man:
- 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.
- 2015 October 27, The Guardian:
- 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.
- (colloquial, humorous, hyperbolic) Something objectionable.
Translations
a large-scale persecution of, or atrocity against, a body of people
See also
Further reading
crimes against humanity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
