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Your eyes look atrocious, Frankie. (source)atrocious = exceptionally bad
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I am sitting by the window now, up in this atrocious nursery, and there is nothing to hinder my writing as much as I please, save lack of strength. (source)atrocious = exceptionally ugly
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He dared do such an atrocious thing? (source)atrocious = exceptionally bad
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She woke up to Lupe's whimpering and an atrocious smell.† (source)
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Her cooking was atrocious.† (source)
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Afterward, there had been in her a void, a raw, sunlight-scraped center—something atrocious that muttered how simple it would be to fall down the stairs.† (source)
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The items he has picked up on clearance tables range from merely useless, like his portable siren, to truly atrocious, like birds made of felt.† (source)
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Her hands and breasts were atrociously burned, and she had been burned repeatedly at various spots all over her body.† (source)atrociously = in an exceptionally bad manner
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In the meantime, his business was with the leaden—and, as the day dawned, the atrociousness of his conduct became apparent For the Eleven Kings had assembled some apology for an infantry screen, behind which to wait his charges.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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She says my French is atrocious but my English is even worse.† (source)
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I can still see her as a brightly-dressed little thing constantly dashing hither and thither at a staggering run, clasping an atrociously cross-eyed doll which she loved with uncritical passion.† (source)
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When the Baudelaire orphans had been under Olaf's care, he had often acted this way, always happy to show off his skills, whether he was onstage with his atrocious theater company or up in his tower room making nasty plans.† (source)
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That young foreigner played atrociously, I thought.† (source)
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At morning and evening worship, people drifted in and out, table manners were atrocious, one man took a walk into Haarlem every morning at 3:00 A.M. I could not bring myself to sound a whistle or to scold, or to consider gates or curfews.† (source)
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And these days he acted so atrociously he really might do it.† (source)
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A more impudent, false, and atrocious proclamation was never fabricated by the hands of man.† (source)
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