Read full poem →Notice that the feast of Act I has moved onstage to become the
banquet of Act III, so that we now see the atrocious linkage made by
Macbeth between hospitality and murder. The fact also that it is
Dictionary Entry
Frightful, evil, cruel, or monstrous.
In a Sentence
“Prisons have been the sites of atrocious mistreatment of prisoners.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. atrociouscrimes atrociouscrime atrociousact atrociousacts atrociousmurder atrocious
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Poetry examples for “atrocious”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →languorous (displayed in Dido, the first half of Edward, and Hero
and Leander), and the vast and atrocious (displayed nearly every-
where else in the extant intact work of high quality). These modes
Read full poem →valuable moral inculcated, had the conduct of OEdipus, in his combat
with Laius, been represented as atrocious, or, at least,
unwarrantable; as the sequel would then have been a warning, how
Read full poem →was, that the discovery had not yet reached the bottom of the plot.
Thus the disposition of the vulgar to believe the atrocious and the
marvellous, was heightened by the stimulus of ungratified curiosity,
Read full poem →twice offended with chance words. Her English is
atrocious! It is in this town that the saloon is situated,
close to the railroad track, close as may be, this side