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Meanings of atrocious in English
Exceptionally bad or displeasing.
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Examples for "horrible"
Examples for "horrible"
1
The moon had not risen; the atmosphere was plunged in horrible darkness.
2
The idea of a death in the treacherous quicksand was truly horrible.
3
Her whole appearance was horrible; the devil was once more in possession.
4
The shadows of the room grew menacing; the very silence became horrible.
5
These were horrible moments while the two hung trembling in the balance.
1
The mediocre in poetry is merely fatuous; in sculpture, it is ugly.
2
It began to break out in ugly blisters; I was in despair.
3
Those are just the ugly parts they play in the present drama.
4
Take the thing away, sir: it is ugly; it has black eyes.
5
Just the toy-villages in boxes, uniform as graves and ugly as bricks-
1
There is some error, one frightful error, in the thinking of men.
2
No musical form, however frightful, seems immune from reinvention, reconstitution or revivification.
3
It is more terrible in sound than frightful in reality, my child.
4
That was the most frightful thing about it; it had no mouth.
5
To be caught in the mysterious toils of the law is frightful.
1
But Green Party environment spokeswoman Eugenie Sage said the idea was horrifying.
2
The sentence was both kind and horrifying the way he said it.
3
He can see the horrifying images far too clearly in his mind.
4
There will almost certainly be another trial, another set of horrifying revelations.
5
Adams launched into a rather horrifying discussion of a possible atomic explosion.
Usage of atrocious in English
1
Still, violence against women and girls persists and takes atrocious new forms.
2
Outside in the atrocious cold the whining malamutes crept nearer and nearer.
3
At this time the atrocious custom of head-hunting prevailed in the island.
4
It can't be stressed enough: John McCain was an atrocious presidential candidate.
5
He was an atrocious criminal was all that was said about him.
6
The old staff here have left the records in an atrocious State.
7
Here one of the most atrocious massacres of the West took place.
8
This father may have been the victim of the most atrocious injustice.
9
The details of the atrocious deed were communicated to me as follows.
10
Oriskany was reputed to be the most atrocious fight of the Revolution.
11
The atrocious tyranny of Ashrab was suddenly checked by the celebrated Nadir-Shah.
12
Thousands of innocent people had been murdered in circumstances of atrocious cruelty.
13
Gilles confessed to frightful holocausts, and his friends confirmed the atrocious details.
14
He imagined himself justified in imputing to me atrocious and infamous errors.
15
I forgive misdeeds and even atrocious actions, in forgiving those who repent.
16
Family quarrels, being in themselves unnatural, led to the most atrocious crimes.
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United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common