| 单词 | atrocity story |
| 释义 | > as lemmasatrocity story attributive and in other combinations, as atrocity-monger (so atrocity-mongering n. and adj.), atrocity propaganda, atrocity story. ΚΠ 1896 Westm. Gaz. 18 Feb. 1/2 The massacres were a tale, either grossly exaggerated or altogether invented by atrocity-mongering journals. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 28 Aug. 2/3 We should be very cautious about accepting these atrocity stories. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 18 Oct. 3/3 In the words of General Colley, is not all this atrocity-mongering calculated to ‘make our soldiers either cowards or butchers’? 1905 A. Bennett Tales of Five Towns i. 94 You see roundabouts, swings,..atrocity booths, quack dentists. 1914 E. A. Powell Fighting in Flanders v. 129 Let them hear our side of this atrocity business. 1930 G. B. Shaw What I really wrote about War p. ix The atrocity mongers who are using Belgium as a stick to beat Germany. 1937 A. Koestler Spanish Test. iv. 84 We know how much harm the preposterous atrocity propaganda engaged in by both sides caused during the Great War. < as lemmas |
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