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perpetration

Noun

Meaning

The act of perpetrating; a doing; -- commonly used of doing something wrong, as a crime.

The thing perpetrated; an evil action.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth. Edgar Degas

If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery. Kailash Satyarthi

When there are no gas chambers, no barbed wire, and no concentration camps, many don't recognize the perpetration of new genocides and other targeted mass atrocity crimes because they may not look the same. John Prendergast

In 1997 the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective announced that they had been responsible for the perpetration of the "Good Times" virus hoax as an exercise to "prove the gullibility of self-proclaimed "experts" on the Internet." Source: Internet

By being passive when Black folks are excluded from conversations concerning equality, performative allies are complicit in the perpetration of anti-black actions and are therefore supporting the white supremacy they’re supposedly against. Source: Internet

It is a sad fact that the perpetration of those acts is not confined to that class of people which might be called the rabble. Source: Internet

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