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outrage

noun abomination, absurdity, abuse, affront, atrocity, contempt, contumacious, cruelty, dishonorableness, disrespect, harmfulness, hatefulness, horribleness, ignobleness, malevolence, maliciousness, odiousness, offensiveness, perfidiousness, wickedness
Associated concepts: moral outrage
See also: abuse, bait, cruelty, defilement, delinquency, dishonor, disregard, disservice, disturb, flout, ground, harass, harrow, insult, mischief, misconduct, misdoing, persecute, perturb, shame, vice, wrong

OUTRAGE. A grave injury; a serious wrong. This is a generic word which is applied to everything, which is injurious, in great degree, to the honor or rights of another.

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Public reaction - revulsion may be the better word - to this outrage and to the recent arson of Sacramento synagogues once again points up what a unique and wonderful place America is and it makes my glass much more than half full.
And there would have been much less outrage and concern.
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It's loaded with splendid examples of regulatory and legal stupidity, and contains a blood-boiling outrage every few pages.
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If anything is worth a burst of outrage, it ought to be the specter of the vile Henry Kissinger back at the White House peddling his dreams of violent conquest to a president who is as dimwitted about international issues as Richard Nixon was devious.
There are bigger things to get upset about than Mark Foley's behavior

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