atrociously

comparative more atrociously · superlative most atrociously

1. in an atrocious manner

   I have been atrociously injured; I have killed—I deserve death, but that is all. I die after having squared my account with humanity. I do not leave any obligation unfulfilled.

   1916, Stendhal, translated by Horace Barnet Samuel, The Red and the Black

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   Among the atrociously unjust arrangements arising from prejudice and bad law, there is none greater than that of saddling a guiltless man with the stigma and legal disabilities of bastardism, because of acts of his father, which the son could in no way control.

   1858, Robert Paine Dick, Marriage and Population, page 34

   there was no means of going otherwise, the path being atrociously narrow and steep, and only fit for wild goats, there being no landrail, coping, or anything in the world to stay one from being hurled down a thousand feet, and the mountain sides so inclined that 'twas a miracle the mules could find foothold and keep their balance.

   1895, Frank Barrett, A Set of Rogues

   And Minerva said, "[…]And the guests—how atrociously they are behaving; what riot they make over the whole house; it is enough to disgust any respectable person who comes near them."

   1900, Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Samuel Butler, transl., The Odyssey: Rendered into English Prose for the Use of Those who Cannot Read the Original, London: A[rthur] C. Fifield, →OCLC