atrocious

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The fact that we drag other animals into our atrocious battles is yet another reason war is hell.

From Salon

These specious debates saw atrocious bad-faith techniques, like “Gish gallops” where a speaker utters as many misrepresentations, false claims and outright lies as possible.

From Scientific American

Among them, he said: The suspect, Bryan Kohberger, is charged with committing multiple murders; the killings were “especially heinous, atrocious or cruel”; and Mr. Kohberger had “exhibited utter disregard for human life.”

From New York Times

The actor said in the interview that in the early 1990s, he was caught in an “atrocious” storm in the Andes and was lucky to survive when three others near his party didn’t.

From Washington Times

He also noted a close brush with death in the early 1990s, when he and three other hikers were caught in “an atrocious storm above 20,000 ft” while trekking in the Andes Mountains.

From Los Angeles Times