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appalling, awful, dreadful, frightful, ghastly, grisly, gruesome (also grewsome), hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, lurid, macabre, monstrous, nightmare, nightmarish, shocking, terrible, terrific
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The movie’s pagan-commune plot is clearly derivative of the horror classic The Wicker Man — the brilliant 1973 version, not the atrocious Nicolas Cage remake. — Ross Douthat, National Review, "Midsommar Casts a Transfixing Scandinavian Spell," 25 July 2019 American culture didn’t require Japanese internment to be as atrocious as Nazism to ultimately condemn its own treatment of the Japanese. — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, "The “concentration camp” language debate is the wrong fight," 13 July 2019 The idea that continued U.S. support for the atrocious Saudi bombing campaign will help prevent suffering of the Yemeni people is laughable. — WSJ, "The Saudis Are the Cause of Trouble in Yemen," 7 July 2019 The whirlwind season came to a sudden end in the Divisional Round playoff loss at Los Angeles, on a night where Dallas’s run defense was atrocious. — Andy Benoit, SI.com, "Leighton Vander Esch’s Parents Reflect on Their Son’s Star Rookie Season," 24 July 2019 As a result, more people showed up closer to showtime, and the traffic on a mile-long stretch of Highway 120 and the mile of County Road D leading into Alpine’s lots was atrocious. — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Heat wave and storms pass before Jimmy Buffett's joyous return to Alpine Valley Music Theatre," 21 July 2019 Make no bones about it, Arsenal were atrocious at the back last season. — SI.com, "Kieran Tierney: 5 Reasons Why Arsenal Should Up Their Bid & Bring the Scot to North London," 23 June 2019 But a look at the scientific data behind the story finds that such a splashy takeaway is tenuous at best—and atrocious reporting at worst. — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, "Debunked: The absurd story about smartphones causing kids to sprout horns," 21 June 2019 That was atrocious, and the media reported it as such. — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, "Jim Acosta Describes Why He Attacks Trump," 21 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'atrocious.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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