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. [from 17th c.]
- 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, The Guardian, 27 October:
  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.
- 2021 July 13, Sara Fujimura, Faking Reality‎, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, LCCN 2021009141, OCLC 1268988888:
  “Pineapple on pizza is a crime against humanity,” Leo's voice is flat. Which is weird, because he usually adds “Fight me” at the end of that declaration.

Translations

a large-scale persecution of, or atrocity against, a body of people

Arabic: جَرِيمَة ضِدَّ الْإِنْسَانِيَّةَ‎ f (jarīma(t) ḍidda l-ʾinsāniyyata)
Armenian: հանցագործություն մարդկության հանդեպ (hancʿagorcutʿyun mardkutʿyan handep)
Bulgarian: престъпле́ние срещу́ чове́чеството n (prestǎplénie sreštú čovéčestvoto)
Catalan: crim de lesa humanitat m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 危害人類罪／危害人类罪 (wēihài rénlèi zuì), 反人類罪／反人类罪 (zh) (fǎnrénlèizuì), 違反人道罪／违反人道罪 (wéifǎnréndàozuì)
Czech: zločin proti lidskosti m
Danish: forbrydelse mod menneskeheden c
Dutch: misdaad tegen de menselijkheid f (Netherlands), misdaad tegen de mensheid f (Belgium)
Esperanto: krimo kontraŭ la homeco
Estonian: inimsusevastane kuritegu
Finnish: rikos ihmisyyttä vastaan (fi)
French: crime contre l'humanité (fr) m
Georgian: დანაშაული კაცობრიობის წინააღმდეგ (današauli ḳacobriobis c̣inaaɣmdeg)
German: Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit (de) n, Menschheitsverbrechen (de) n
Greek: έγκλημα κατά της ανθρωπότητας n (égklima katá tis anthropótitas)
Hebrew: פשע נגד האנושות‎ m (pésha néged he-enoshút)
Hindi: मानवता-विरोधी अपराध (mānavtā-virodhī aprādh)
Hungarian: emberiesség elleni bűntett
Icelandic: glæpur gegn mannkyni (is) m
Indonesian: kejahatan kemanusiaan, kejahatan terhadap umat manusia
Italian: crimine contro l'umanità (it) m
Japanese: 人道に対する罪 (jindō ni taisuru tsumi)
Korean: 인도에 반한 죄 (indo'e banhan joe)
Latvian: noziegumiem pret cilvēci m pl
Lithuanian: nusikaltimas žmoniškumui m (use in plural is more common)
Malay: jenayah terhadap kemanusiaan
Norwegian:
Bokmål: forbrytelse mot menneskeheten m
Persian: جنایت علیه بشریت‎ (fa) (jenâyat aleye bašariyyat)
Polish: zbrodnia przeciwko ludzkości f
Portuguese: crime contra a humanidade f
Romanian: crimă contra umanității f
Russian: преступле́ние про́тив челове́чества n (prestuplénije prótiv čelovéčestva)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: злочин против човечности m
Roman: zločin protiv čovečnosti m
Slovak: zločin proti ľudskosti m
Slovene: zločin proti človeštvu m
Spanish: delito de lesa humanidad m, crimen de lesa humanidad (es) f
Swedish: brott mot mänskligheten n
Tamil: மானுடத்துக்கு எதிரான குற்றங்கள் (māṉuṭattukku etirāṉa kuṟṟaṅkaḷ)
Thai: อาชญากรรมต่อมนุษยชาติ (àat-yaa-gam-dtɔ̀ɔ-mnú-sii-châat)
Turkish: insanlığa karşı suçlar
Ukrainian: зло́чин про́ти лю́дства m (zlóčyn próty ljúdstva)
Vietnamese: tội ác chống lại loài người

crime against humanity

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