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Recent Examples of atrocious Even if there is no police report or formal complaint, Netflix could do its due diligence of getting into the social-media groups and taking a peek to see if there’s anything atrocious being said about some of these men. Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 21 May 2025 The company also floated an atrocious proposal to erect a 50-story apartment tower on the same pier, but that ambition thankfully dissipated. Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 May 2025 McIlroy then happened to have an atrocious week driving the golf ball. Kendall Capps, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 May 2025 Tottenham’s performances without their first-choice centre-backs have been atrocious. Jay Harris, New York Times, 1 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for atrocious
Recent Examples of Synonyms for atrocious
Adjective
  • Throughout the Holocaust, the Nazis concentrated European Jews in urban ghettos, which were marked by horrific living conditions, forced labor and the threat of execution.
    Tom Dreisbach, NPR, 30 June 2025
  • And that's a tough sell to a jury that spent weeks listening to horrific testimony about Diddy and his empire.
    Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 29 June 2025
Adjective
  • To be able to say that so many writers have been meaningful to you is not a horrible thing.
    John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2025
  • If Flagg develops into the human triple double who leads the team to the Western Conference Finals and NBA Finals in his first six years, the trade can be called not a horrible deal.
    Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • The Royals lost to the Dodgers on Friday night, a brutal 5-4 loss as Jac Caglianone grounded into a double play to conclude the 11th straight home loss.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 28 June 2025
  • The 28-year-old is playing on a medical exemption after a brutal stretch of injuries and illness.
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • Accounts of government and police repression have only gotten more gruesome, with Amnesty Kenya reporting that 16 people have been shot and killed as of June 28 and local officials claiming that hundreds have been injured (while also alleging that most of those hurt were police officers).
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2025
  • Forget turning on some gruesome horror movie: reading the daily headlines is enough to make just about anyone scream.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • Rarely great, and consistently cringey in that NHL way we’re used to by now, but rarely terrible.
    Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 28 June 2025
  • Gi-hun is left with a terrible choice: kill the baby and survive, or sacrifice himself so that the baby can live.
    Kayti Burt, Time, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • What is a totalitarian leader other than an individualist taking that creed to its cruel conclusions, erasing the uniqueness of every other person into mere characters in a drama?
    Ed Simon June 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
  • That first leg ended 1-0 — a slim aggregate lead — and in the second leg back on Kiwi soil, the Australians won 2-0 with one of their goals a cruel deflection.
    Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • The Paris heavyweight routed Atletico Madrid 4-0 in their Club World Cup opening game, suffered a shocking 1-0 upset by Brazilian club Botafogo in their second match, and then beat the Seattle Sounders 2-0 to clinch first place in the group.
    Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 27 June 2025
  • The 6-foot-7 forward will join Kyrie Irving and Anthony Davis with the Mavericks, who are looking to turn around the franchise following the shocking midseason trade of Luka Dončić in February.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • What’s more, the Steelers failed to score a first-drive touchdown all season, were awful in the red zone, were awful on first down, and mostly awful in short yardage.
    Tribune Content Agency, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 June 2025
  • Outcomes for what’s referred to as ‘children in care’ remain unacceptably awful.
    Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025

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“Atrocious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/atrocious. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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