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Dictionary definition for: Atrocious
1. (s) shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime" "a grievous offense against morality" "a grievous crime" "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit"
2. (s) exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste" "abominable workmanship" "an awful voice" "dreadful manners" "a painful performance" "terrible handwriting" "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"
3. (s) provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident" "a frightful crime of decapitation" "an alarming, even horrifying, picture" "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"
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