Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an atrocious manner; with great cruelty or wickedness.
 
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- adverb   in an 
atrocious manner 
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb to an extravagant or immoderate degree
 - adverb in a terrible manner
 
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Examples
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Lowery said Mexican tariffs are "atrociously" high.
ajc.com - News dchapman@ajc.com 2010
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There are plenty of grown-ups who could give a hoot about anything to do with the poorly-written, atrociously-acted mess that is Twilight.
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Rarely has something been marketed as a professional video with such atrociously tacky production values – in every episode, “Muscle Video Journal” comes across as a bulked up public access happening.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009
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I do agree with Paglia in her observation that over the [last several] decades, poetry and poetry study were steadily marginalised by pretentious 'theory' - which claims to analyse language but atrociously abuses it.
Poetry 2010
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He characterized the sale as "the beginning of a bubble" in emerging-market dollar debt, which he said is already among the "most atrociously priced stuff out there."
Mexico Gets $1 Billion, 100 Years Kejal Vyas 2010
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On Thursday Woods hit the ball decently and putted atrociously.
Tiger Woods struggles again but makes the cut at Fry.com Open 2011
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Nothing beats a bowl of popcorn and an atrociously bad movie.
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The reviews were terrible, though I was personally guilty of the most atrociously contrary humbug by attempting to claim that the movie really wasn't as utterly awful as everyone was saying.
Mark Kermode: How to make an intelligent blockbuster and not alienate people 2011
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It's really one of the most atrociously written of HPL's stories, and a testament to how stupendously his writing improved from the early 1920s to the early and mid-1930s.
One of those WoW things. sovay 2009
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He characterized the sale as "the beginning of a bubble" in emerging-market dollar debt, which he said is already among the "most atrociously priced stuff out there."
Mexico Sells $1 Billion Century Bond Kejal Vyas 2010
 
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