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Example sentences for "atrociously"

Lexicographically close words:
atria; atrial; atriplex; atrium; atrocious; atrocities; atrocity; atrophic; atrophied; atrophies
  1. It riles me, however, that the affair was so atrociously bungled by Crenshaw and the others.

  2. Moreover, here we are," as the taxi came to a stop on the Seventeenth Street side of an atrociously ugly, and miserably inadequate building that partially houses three Departments of the great American Government.

  3. You feel that I have behaved atrociously to you, and any one you ask would agree with you.

  4. Esther, that is a charming emerald you are wearing but it is atrociously set.

  5. I believe Sir Ranald used to let the public in at one time," said Noreen, "but people behaved so atrociously that he had to stop.

  6. Well, your French accent is so atrociously bad, I don't wonder!

  7. No spot in this world can be more horrible, more atrociously dismal, than the cindered tip of the Lotos as you stand upon it.

  8. They cooked a large amount of buffalo steak; then, each with his hands full of the savory meat, they began to dance around the fires, droning meantime an atrociously repellant chant.

  9. It was some time before Beverley could again secure Alice for a dance, and he found it annoying him atrociously to see her smile sweetly on some buckskin-clad lout who looked like an Indian and danced like a Parisian.

  10. He grinned atrociously and smacked his corrugated lips; but when Gaspard Roussillon came in, the old man was sitting at some distance from the bottle and glass gazing indifferently out across the veranda.

  11. We were still without a cook; for Julian was so atrociously bad that I kept him at the squeezes, taking the cooking ourselves in turn, which wasted much valuable time.

  12. But during the troubles of 1860, French troops were quartered there and their conduct was so atrociously brutal and lustful that Chefoo has ever since been bitterly anti-foreign.

  13. How atrociously absurd to suppose any motive capable of inducing such a man to play the part of a lurking assassin?

  14. And then I repeated what Siluce had said as to the treatment which she had received, and the causes for that treatment; and I ventured to hint that, according to the views of civilised people, the unhappy girl had been atrociously misused.

  15. They drank the milk and ate the white meat and gently refused some atrociously fermented tuba pressed ardently to their lips.

  16. For at the end of those sixty minutes that had passed since his midday pot of tea, the grimly, atrociously unexpected had happened, like a thunderbolt out of the azure of the sky.

  17. Why had she labored to save the life she had so atrociously coveted a minute before?

  18. The strange picture he thus conjured up, appeared to him atrociously ridiculous and exasperated him.

  19. For some moments, he had been looking at a corpse, taken from the water, that was small in build and atrociously disfigured.

  20. When there is no hope in the future, the present appears atrociously bitter.

  21. But instead of Therese, it was Camille who opened the door, Camille, just as he had seen him at the Morgue, looking greenish, and atrociously disfigured.

  22. The mob of savages was soon wrought up to the required pitch of ferocity; and, after atrociously tormenting him, they cut him to pieces, and ate him.

  23. The provisions left at Niagara, though abundant, were atrociously bad.

  24. All this would be deemed atrociously aristocratic, were it told in Gath!

  25. I was particularly struck with this fact, even at that hour, as we went stumbling along over an atrociously bad sidewalk, my eyes never at rest, as any one can imagine, after five years of absence.

  26. You find her telling you how atrociously Worth charges for a simple gray silk, and before she has finished marshalling her figures she ejaculates, "But why should we worms of the earth take so much thought wherewithal shall we be clothed?

  27. They had been irritating him all day, till he had been atrociously rude to them.

  28. She rewarded him with a smile which seemed to him, if anything, more atrociously luminous than the last.

  29. Everything is atrociously dear, and the charming simplicity of the Izumo folk does not here exist.

  30. There are not books enough, and the reading-books chosen are atrociously unsuited for the students.

  31. Such an atrociously cheeky, unladylike thing to do, and putting her address here at the Grange!

  32. It's not the right period for Nell Gwynn, and it's so atrociously badly painted that it's obviously the work of some village artist.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "atrociously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    atrociously; awfully; badly; cruelly; dreadfully; ferociously; flagrantly; grossly; horribly; horridly; infamously; meanly; miserably; monstrously; outrageously; poorly; terribly