atrocious
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Atrocious offensive line play, in many ways, harms the viewing experience more than terrible quarterback play.
From Washington Post • Sep. 13, 2017
Atrocious weather mired the Germans first in impassable mud and then in horrific, record-breaking low temperatures and snow storms.
From BBC • Oct. 28, 2013
"Atrocious, artless, cynical," is the way Stephen Bayley, one of Britain's leading voices on style, taste and contemporary design, described the uniforms.
From Reuters • Aug. 3, 2012
"Atrocious drama," huffed one New York critic after a 1931 performance of From the House of the Dead, a powerful musical rendering of Dostoevsky's novel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Atrocious struggles, merciless duels, fill the summer nights.
From Fabre, Poet of Science by Miall, Bernard
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