atrocious

adj

Etymology: From Latin atrōx (“cruel, fierce, frightful”) + -ious.

1. Frightful, evil, cruel, or monstrous.

   “Prisons have been the sites of atrocious mistreatment of prisoners.”

2. Offensive or heinous.

   “I had resolved in my own mind, that to create another like the fiend I had first made would be an act of the basest and most atrocious selfishness; and I banished from my mind every thought that could lead to a different conclusion.”

3. Very bad; abominable, disgusting.

   “Their taste in clothes is just atrocious.”

   “Others of the sailors joined with them in this attempt, and a twisted turmoil ensued; while standing out of harm's way, the valiant captain danced up and down with a whale-pike, calling upon his officers to manhandle that atrocious scoundrel, and smoke him along to the quarter-deck.”