Both Uses of
atrocious
in
1776, by McCullough
- A more impudent, false, and atrocious proclamation was never fabricated by the hands of man.†
p. 141.9 *
- As it was, for the most "atrocious offenses," the maximum was thirty-nine lashes, and these, he had found, were seldom layed on as they should be, but more as "sport."†
p. 227.2
Definition:
exceptionally bad, cruel, or ugly