atrocity porn
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.02 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Media or news reporting which highlights extreme violence in a gratuitous or sensationalized manner.
Derogatory; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "One of the most memorable pieces of fake news during Russia's 2014 invasion of Ukraine was the "crucified boy of Slavyansk," a canard designed by Russian state-controlled media to whip Russians into a nationalist frenzy by the sheer enormity of the alleged crime. The gist of it was that Ukrainian forces, after retaking Slavyansk from pro-Russian militants in July 2014, supposedly subjected the town's inhabitants to vicious retribution, including the public execution of a 3-year-old boy in front of his mother. It was a perfect piece of atrocity porn."