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atrocious
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    "The selection here is atrocious," he complained.†  (source)
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    The truth about how and why he was murdered is simply atrocious.†  (source)
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    Her cooking was atrocious.†  (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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    That young foreigner played atrociously, I thought.†  (source)
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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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    Your French is atrocious.†  (source)
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    And these days he acted so atrociously he really might do it.†  (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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    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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    His accent was atrocious.†  (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)
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    Every character is atrocious and spoiled and selfish....It's kind of like watching an episode of Gossip Girl in the eighteen hundreds.†  (source)
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