Sample Sentences foratrocious (auto-selected)
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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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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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Your French is 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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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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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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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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And these days he acted so atrociously he really might do it.† (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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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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They painted their parents' houses atrocious colors; they whitewashed Maycomb's stores and put up neon signs; they built red brick houses of their own in what were formerly corn patches and pine thickets; they ruined the old town's looks.† (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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But his behavior is atrocious.† (source)
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