All 3 Uses
atrocious
in
David Copperfield
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- It lay heavier on my breast than if I had been a most atrocious criminal, I dare say.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- I bound myself by the required promise, in a most impassioned manner; called upon Traddles to witness it; and denounced myself as the most atrocious of characters if I ever swerved from it in the least degree.†
Chpt 40-42
- Villainy is the matter; baseness is the matter; deception, fraud, conspiracy, are the matter; and the name of the whole atrocious mass is — HEEP!'†
Chpt 49-51
Definitions:
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(1)
(atrocious) exceptionally bad, cruel, or ugly
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)