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Adjective: atrocious  u'trow-shus
  1. Shockingly brutal or cruel
    "murder is an atrocious crime"
    - flagitious, grievous, monstrous
     
  2. Exceptionally bad or displeasing
    "atrocious taste"
    - abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable
     
  3. Provoking horror
    "an atrocious automobile accident"
    - frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly

See also: alarming, atrocity, bad, evil

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Atriplex
Atriplex hortensis
Atriplex hymenelytra
Atriplex lentiformis
Atriplex mexicana
atrium
atrium cordis
atrium dextrum
atrium of the heart
atrium sinistrum
atrocious
atrociously
atrociousness
atrocity
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Atropa
Atropa belladonna
atrophedema
atrophic
atrophic arthritis
atrophied