crime
It's a crime that families in such a rich country have to rely on charity to feed their children.
It would be a crime to pave over such a beautiful garden.
The building is in really good shape and it would be a crime to tear it down.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences
a hard/tough row to hoeidiom
abyss
adversity
at your worstidiom
Augean
bad hair day
epidemic
half nelson
hardness
have a bumpy rideidiom
pall
purgatory
push factor
quagmire
quicksand
rabbit hole
scrape
strait
the Augean Stablesidiom
the hard wayidiom