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Another word for atrocious

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Adjective

  1. Disgracefully and grossly offensive

    See also:

    right

  2. Extremely unpleasant to the senses or feelings

    See also:

    pain

    like

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Another word for atrocious

Modifier
  1. See also:

    outrageous

    See syn. study at

    outrageous

    frightful

    cruel

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Sentence Examples

  • This atrocious act was soon avenged.

  • Unitarians were saved from these atrocious penalties by a later act (53 Geo.

  • But during the atrocious holocausts formidable states had grown up around France, observing her and threatening her; and on the other hand, as on the morrow of the Hundred Years War, the lassitude of the country, the lack of political feeling on the part of the upper classes and their selfishness, led to a fresh abdication of the nations rights.

  • The princess gave way to paroxysms of rage, in which she was guilty of acts of atrocious violence.

  • However atrocious its conception and its aims, it is impossible not to feel, together with horror for the deed, some pity and admiration for the guilty persons who took part in it.

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