What's the difference between abominable and atrocious?

Abominable


Definition:

  • (a.) Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.
  • (a.) Excessive; large; -- used as an intensive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One goat anesthetized with thiamylal sodium, xylazine, and halothane for repair of an abominal hernia, and 7 of 29 goats similarly anesthetized for an experiment unrelated to considerations of anesthesia, developed signs of hepatic failure within 24 hours of anesthesia.
  • (2) Conservative evangelicals often quote a verse in Leviticus which describes sexual relations between men as an “abomination”.
  • (3) It's necessary to outline the succession of injustices that Watson has suffered, the abominable luck and ongoing battles, to begin to appreciate his near total absence of rancour.
  • (4) We are going to mourn our dead ... but tomorrow, we will kiss each other like the abominable perverts we are,” journalist Luc Vaillant said in a column published in the left-wing newspaper Libération.
  • (5) As abominable as the crimes in Cologne and other cities were, one thing remains clear: there is no justification for blanket agitation against foreigners,” justice minister Heiko Maas said, adding that some people “appear just to have been waiting for the events of Cologne.” On Monday, a regional parliamentary commission in North-Rhine Westphalia, where Cologne is the largest city, will question police and others about the events on New Year’s Eve.
  • (6) The detention facility itself is a human rights abomination, but it’s not just the physical center that is a problem – it is the spirit it embodies.
  • (7) Jules's passing made Edmond "curse and abominate literature" to such an extent that, after describing with clinical precision and agonising detail the gradual collapse of his brother's physical and mental capacities, he decided to abandon the Journal.
  • (8) An exchange of emails released on Monday by the US State Department shows that Clinton was lobbied in May 2009 by a close friend, Brian Greenspun, to take action after a senior figure in the US Jewish community accused the film festival of “inherent antisemitism” and an “abomination”.
  • (9) He describes slavery as an "abominable exercise" but says that time, and history, make seeking any compensation for its legacy hopelessly impractical.
  • (10) Democrats failed on Wednesday to block Republican attempts to cut billions of dollars in food assistance to poor American families, having earlier denounced the plans as an "abomination" and "immoral".
  • (11) Sarah Jackson, deputy regional director of Amnesty International, said: "Even though Uganda's abominable anti-homosexuality act was scrapped on the basis of a technicality, it is a significant victory for Ugandan activists who have campaigned against this law.
  • (12) Others, though, recall abominable experiences and compare the inhumanity of the old NHS with the compassionate, personalised and technically excellent care they received in recent times.
  • (13) They will become the consultants and NHS leaders of the future, and will be unlikely to acquiesce so easily to myriad abominations imposed by politicians for the sheer fun of re-disorganising the service from the top.
  • (14) This abominable and filthy practice of sodomy has resulted in the great continent of Africa being riddled with Aids,” he said.
  • (15) The attitude expressed in Leviticus, that it was an abomination, was the order of the day."
  • (16) This was an absolutely abominable attack, it’s completely unacceptable,” she told reporters on Monday as she departed for a three-day trip to Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
  • (17) He added: “One of the great ironies is that Kim Davis’s Pentecostal faith has historically viewed Catholicism as an idolatrous abomination of Christianity.
  • (18) I remember they [legislators] described us as ‘an abomination to God,’” said Harmon.
  • (19) In the meantime, he remains incarcerated in Scheveningen prison, in a suburb of The Hague He has described the cooking in Dutch jail as an "abomination".
  • (20) The more abominably the villains behave, the more admirable they are; there is equal pleasure in the story's joie de vivre and, indeed, its joie de mourir.

Atrocious


Definition:

  • (a.) Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds.
  • (a.) Characterized by, or expressing, great atrocity.
  • (a.) Very grievous or violent; terrible; as, atrocious distempers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Giving in to fear in the wake of the atrocious attacks on Paris will not protect anyone,” Amnesty director John Dalhuisen said in the aftermath of the attacks.
  • (2) I know of our history and no political power in the EU is trying to do any of the atrocious things that were done by Hitler and his followers.
  • (3) "This atrocious act will not be tolerated and such violence has no place in Canada.
  • (4) It also brings newcomers to neighbourhoods with nonwhite populations, sometimes with atrocious consequences.
  • (5) Fox News website embeds unedited Isis video showing brutal murder of Jordanian pilot Read more Media organisations face a particular dilemma, as the atrociousness arguably makes the crimes even more newsworthy.
  • (6) God knows what our losses were, must have run into thousands.” In fact, few allied troops ever made it much further than a few hundred metres from the shore, and the battle soon descended into trench warfare, in truly atrocious conditions.
  • (7) I’m always subjected to atrocious Irish accents and jokes about being able to drink everyone else under the table; and any time I mention potatoes I’ll get “oh of course you’re talking about potatoes”!
  • (8) "Any parallel with the affairs of the Berlusconi family is therefore not only inappropriate and incomprehensible but also offensive to the memory of those who were deprived of all rights and, after atrocious and unspeakable suffering, deprived of their lives."
  • (9) Celtic 0-2 Inverness CT (Foran 35) "SUPER CALEY GO BALLISTIC, CELTIC ARE ATROCIOUS," may well get a second airing tomorrow.
  • (10) Human Rights Watch says there is no rule of law in the country and that its human rights record "remains atrocious and has only deteriorated further in the past year".
  • (11) After last week’s atrocious events in Paris , which claimed the lives of 17 innocent people including journalists, two policemen and a policewoman, a maintenance worker and four Jewish shoppers at a kosher supermarket, France, home to the largest Jewish population in Europe – somewhere between 500,000 and 600,000 people – faces a brutal reckoning about the future of its second largest ethno-religious minority.
  • (12) "But if I want to judge Vladimir Putin as a politician, these are my criticisms: our country is in an atrocious condition.
  • (13) Amid signs of mounting pressure on both sides to end the conflict, the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, who is in the Middle East in an attempt to help broker a ceasefire, condemned the Israeli assault in Shuji'iya as an "atrocious action".
  • (14) You see that time and time again in the interviews, folks felt that was just campaign rhetoric and there was just no way that they’d take their healthcare away, and now they’re threatened and there are a lot of frightened people.” Beshear went on to predict that if Trump was successful in passing the AHCA, which he derided as “an atrocious bill”, that there would be “backlash” at the polls.
  • (15) And what was Cameron thinking – that decimating the Syrian army would make life harder for the Islamists, who are palpably the bigger and more atrocious threat?
  • (16) It is extremely regrettable that the very cruel and atrocious case occurred,” Kishida told Kennedy, according to Nippon Television Network.
  • (17) Communist leaders had always used an atrocious double-speak which meant its opposite.
  • (18) Describing it as "a truly horrendous incident", Zeid said in a statement : "It is the duty of states to investigate such atrocious crimes, bring the perpetrators to justice, and even more importantly to do more to prevent them from happening in the first place.
  • (19) Super Caley haven’t gone ballistic and Celtic are anything but atrocious - they lead 3-0.
  • (20) "Only two teams through to the second round so far, and the two last European winners have looked atrocious.