Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds.
Characterized by, or expressing, great atrocity, great atrocity. Revelations . . . so atrocious that nothing in history approaches them. De Quincey.
Very grievous or violent; terrible; as, atrocious distempers. [Obs.] Cheyne.
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