atrocious
/əˈtɹoʊ.ʃəs/ 形容词 C1中文： 狠心、令人发指、坏透
- Frightful, evil, cruel, or monstrous. · Prisons have been the sites of atrocious mistreatment of prisoners.
- Offensive or heinous.
- Very bad; abominable, disgusting. · Their taste in clothes is just atrocious.
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The commutation of his death sentence had been due to some doubts as to his complete sanity, so atrocious was his conduct.
A little investigation showed me that a school had come to grief under atrocious circumstances, and that the man who had owned it—the name was different—had disappeared with his wife.
Since the tragic upshot of our visit to Devonshire he had been engaged in two affairs of the utmost importance, in the first of which he had exposed the atrocious conduct of Colonel Upwood in connection with the famous card scandal of the Nonpareil Club, while in the second he had defended the unfortunate Mme.
One of the culprits will be mazzolato; he is an atrocious villain, who murdered the priest who brought him up, and deserves not the smallest pity.
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