Atrocious

  • 21atrocious — [əˈtrəʊʃəs] adj extremely bad atrocious weather conditions[/ex] atrociously adv …

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  • 22atrocious — [17] Traced back to its ultimate source, atrocious meant something not too dissimilar to ‘having a black eye’. Latin āter was ‘black, dark’ (it occurs also in English atrabilious ‘melancholic’ [17] – Greek mélās meant ‘black’), and the stem * oc …

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  • 23atrocious crime — index atrocity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 24atrocious — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. abominable, monstrous, appalling; see cruel 1 , frightful 1 , outrageous . See Synonym Study at outrageous . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. evil, brutal, appalling, cruel, bad, monstrous, unspeakable, vicious,… …

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  • 25atrocious — a|tro|cious [ ə trouʃəs ] adjective 1. ) very evil or cruel 2. ) very unpleasant 3. ) very bad in quality ╾ a|tro|cious|ly adverb …

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  • 26atrocious — a·tro·cious || É™ trəʊʃəs adj. evil; terrible, horrible …

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  • 27atrocious — adjective 1》 horrifyingly wicked. 2》 extremely bad or unpleasant. Derivatives atrociously adverb atrociousness noun Origin C17: from L. atrox, atroc cruel + ious …

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  • 28atrocious — a. Infamous, villanous, flagitious, heinous, felonious, flagrant, outrageous, enormous, grievous, nefarious, diabolical, monstrous, infernal, hellish, horrible, black, very wicked, excessively cruel …

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  • 29atrocious — adj 1. abominable, execrable, monstrous, horrible, horrid, horrendous; grievous, outrageous, shocking, enormous, flagrant; dark, black, black hearted, sinister, grim, dreadful, dire; hideous, grisly, gruesome, ghastly, unspeakable, unthinkable;… …

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  • 30atrocious — atro·cious …

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