atrocious

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Uthmeier said his office had “secured and executed subpoenas and warrants” and called the brothers’ behavior “atrocious.”

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It instantly divided opinion: "Genuinely atrocious" was one of the kinder comments.

From BBC

"I had quite a shock the other day coming in from west Wales way - the congestion was atrocious," she said.

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The former Prime Minister Boris Johnson wrote in a newspaper column, after leaving office, that the original Dangerous Dogs Act had been "rushed through Parliament and has gone down as a model of atrocious legislation".

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"His foursome play is just atrocious and there's really no explanation because you see the guy winning tournament after tournament after tournament," American writer Alex Miceli told BBC Radio 5 Live.

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