Citations:atrocious


 * 1) Frightful, evil, cruel, or monstrous.
 * 2) Offensive or heinous.
 * 3) * 1818, anonymous &#91;&#93;, chapter VIII, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, London: Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, ; republished as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus […] In Two Volumes, volume I, new (2nd) edition, London: Printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria-Lane, 1823, , page 143:
 * 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.
 * 1) Very bad; abominable, disgusting.
 * 2) * 1851 October 18,, “The Town-Ho’s Story. (As Told at the Golden Inn.)”, in The Whale, 1st British edition, London: Richard Bentley, ; republished as Moby Dick or The White Whale (Famous Sea Stories), Boston, Mass.: The St. Botolph Society, 53 , 1892 (February 1922 printing),  , page 239:
 * 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.