(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.
Monstrous
Definition:
(a.) Marvelous; strange.
(a.) Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth.
(a.) Extraordinary in a way to excite wonder, dislike, apprehension, etc.; -- said of size, appearance, color, sound, etc.; as, a monstrous height; a monstrous ox; a monstrous story.
(a.) Extraordinary on account of ugliness, viciousness, or wickedness; hateful; horrible; dreadful.
(a.) Abounding in monsters.
(adv.) Exceedingly; very; very much.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said: “Al-Jazeera as an editorial product and an employer is by no means above criticism, but that does not make the call for its closure any less monstrous.
(2) as though his head had been halved like an apple, then put together a fraction off center'" – but if they were monstrous they were also, necessarily, human.
(3) Some singers and writers are understood to write “in character” – Elvis Costello, for instance, or Randy Newman – because the characters they create are so obviously not themselves, and are either highly exaggerated or satirical creations or, in the case of Randy Newman, a monstrous opposite.
(4) Which is a monstrous statistic, especially when you start thinking about it as a statistic that measures not just literacy but also as a measure of imagination and empathy, because a book is a little empathy machine.
(5) Despite a cramping, high-concept production set in a psychiatric ward, Richardson gave us a Richard resembling a monstrous child whose ravening will had yet to be curbed by social custom.
(6) I have seen generations of children with their familiar, monstrous deformities .
(7) Ultrasonic treatment results in the appearance of monstrous embryos that die at the latest stages of their development.
(8) Jamie Vardy started to score the goals that his lightning speed of foot and monstrous effort promised he might.
(9) His monstrous wardrobe, his entourages of 300 or 400 ferried in four aeroplanes, his huge bedouin tent, complete with accompanying camel, pitched in public parks or in the grounds of five-star hotels – and his bodyguards of gun-toting young women, who, though by no means hiding their charms beneath demure Islamic veils, were all supposedly virgins, and sworn to give their lives for their leader.
(10) Prosecutors called Gibbs "monstrous" and "savage" and told the military jury he should never be released from prison.
(11) Both cell types fuse again to form the monstrous MGC (more than 1 mm in diameter) widely extended on the implant surface.
(12) The Celtics took a 2-1 series lead and made a monstrous statement against their younger opponents.
(13) Not only the monstrous anger of the guns nor the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle, but now an epic four-minute, eye-wateringly expensive commercial for a supermarket chain.
(14) Yet it is monstrously premature to think the threat has passed.
(15) As always, the solutions are out there to eliminate this monstrous pile of pointless and avoidable waste.
(16) So Standard Chartered is either guilty of monstrous deception or is virtually squeaky clean.
(17) With permissions already granted for many more towers, from the Scalpel to the Can of Ham and a monstrous “Gotham City” mega-block by Make, we can say goodbye to a skyline of individual spires, between which you might occasionally glimpse the sky.
(18) Concerned citizens must join together with the medical profession and leaders of the legal profession to halt this monstrous injustice.
(19) All three of these deaths were monstrous, but two were barely news: business as usual like many thousands of other violent crimes against women.
(20) Alexander Walker, film critic at the Evening Standard, damned the movie as "monstrously indecent", prompting Russell to attack him with a rolled-up copy of his own newspaper.