(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.
Misanthrope
Definition:
(n.) A hater of mankind; a misanthropist.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maybe there was a wish to go for these stronger story formulations, more extreme situations to try to get the energy up to comfortably blow the lid off.” Miller pointed out to Franzen that he has developed something of a reputation as a misanthrope.
(2) This misanthropic masterpiece says it all for them.
(3) Williams's Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, with its all-black cast, won best revival, beating strong competition that included The Misanthrope and A View From the Bridge.
(4) I am not a misanthrope (or not entirely) but I like my experience of nature to be unmediated by the presence of other members of my species, and so I stay away from the venues where the tourists gather en masse.
(5) Jonathan Franzen on his misanthropic reputation: 'We live in a world of cant' Read more While the novelist blamed himself for the incident, he admitted he also blamed Winfrey.
(6) The West End debut of Keira Knightley will irresistibly get all the headlines and shift a lot of the tickets, though the rest of the cast of The Misanthrope – including Damian Lewis, Dominic Rowan and Tara Fitzgerald – are not exactly duffers.
(7) "I was busy being misanthropic and miserable, as most 13-year-olds are.
(8) Scalia was, as usual, the episode's garish, garrulous villain, the kind of lusty misanthrope the word "harrumph" erupts from.
(9) People think I'm crabby having seen the new movie, (1) but I'm not this misanthrope who sits in a dark room, smoking, writing comments under YouTube clips.
(10) They leave the zoo, and close the door and we are left ... " He trails off, the professional churl and pretend misanthrope.
(11) Let's make Alceste fall in love with Jennifer, an American film star, whose shameless manipulation of her powerful friends, strategic sexual provocation and delight in malicious chatter makes her, like The Misanthrope's Célimène, represent everything he most hates.
(12) Her quiet lifestyle, gamine looks and infrequent personal appearances have fuelled her reputation as a misanthropic genius.
(13) To critics who consider Rand's philosophy that " of the psychopath, a misanthropic fantasy of cruelty, revenge and greed ", her posthumous success is alarming.
(14) Known for having starred as child actors in the communist-era film The Two Who Stole the Moon, theirs was a symbiotic political dynamic, with the more softly spoken and personable Lech softening the image of the vitriolic and misanthropic Jarosław.
(15) Amazing – but at the same time worrying: how can his play The Misanthrope have any purchase on a world of such egalitarian transparency?
(16) I have even heard the cynically misanthropic opinion that, without the Bible as a moral compass, people would have no restraint against murder, theft and mayhem.
(17) This isn't easy, for Travers is a misanthrope, highly strung and fiercely protective of her books.
(18) I've found that the songs that come out of nastier, more misanthropic places are better.
(19) "I have heard the cynically misanthropic opinion that without the Bible as a moral compass people would show no restraint against murder, theft and mayhem.
(20) When I put it to him that, like Brooker, there's a liberal heart beating behind the misanthropic exterior (he's fiercely pro-choice and pro-drugs), he disagrees.