PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway called the offer "atrociously bad behavior from a company with a history of atrociously bad behavior.". From LearnThat.org. [http://money.cnn.com/2003/06/06/technology/oracle_peoplesoft/]
atrociously expensive. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an atrocious crime. ,an atrocious painting; atrocious manners. From Dictionary.com.
The cited paragraph was simply atrociously written. From Wordnik.com. [Is Bogus Michelle Obama Rumor Based On A Work Of Fiction?] Reference
I know too well how atrociously bad my handwriting is. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference
All are scrawls, all are painfully, atrociously spelled. From Wordnik.com. [Absolute Friends]
Thus, atrociously, began the reign of the murderous usurper. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
I guess it hasn't really sunk in how atrociously VULNERABLE we are. From Wordnik.com. [kevynwight Diary Entry] Reference
The Muslim faith has been misused atrociously by people of ill will. From Wordnik.com. [Doug Bandow: America, Home of the Free -- Except for Muslims?] Reference
Yes, Ethel, very badly dressed, and her hair was atrociously arranged. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference
(Though we recognize now that that American average is atrociously high.). From Wordnik.com. [Southern Charm] Reference
Crunching the gears atrociously, she drove away without a backward glance. From Wordnik.com. [The Carides Pregnancy]
Its character and extent, however, are grossly and atrociously exaggerated. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
It was an atrociously-hued garment, such as only a student would dare wear. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck] Reference
She too was tall, but skinny rather than slender, and atrociously freckled. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
He winked atrociously at Dr. Otterly, who opened his mouth and shut it again. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
His audience listens to him with the greatest pleasure, because he swears atrociously. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories] Reference
They are so atrociously vile that it is difficult to state the truth in cleanly words. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
But a Bazaar employee felt Veronica conducted her efforts against Mazzola “atrociously.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Mansion Trap] Reference
This has been a strength of Obama's mainly because McCain has been atrociously abysmal at it. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Advisers Taking Ayers, Wright Off The Table?] Reference
You will be atrociously sore, and you will realize that you have muscles of which you wotted not. From Wordnik.com. [Diet and Health With Key to the Calories] Reference
'Sheridan has behaved atrociously towards me,' said he, 'and I am resolved to be revenged on him. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832] Reference
The drugget on the floor only served to hide a part of the still more atrociously patterned carpet. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
He behaves atrociously and under normal circumstances would have been given his marching orders long ago. From Wordnik.com. [Killer Dolphin]
They are in attitudes of fury, with fists upraised as if to strike, and features atrociously fierce and distorted. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I don't know that it is possible to construct anything more atrociously hideous or uninteresting than a Base Camp. From Wordnik.com. [Bullets & Billets] Reference
Since you had housed and fed him atrociously for some days prior to this distressingly public hearing, he was ill. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Enclosed was an atrociously-written letter to her mother from her plain-as-a-pikestaff brother, written from Harrow. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawk of Egypt] Reference
Austin listened very dutifully for some time, but the subject bored him atrociously, and his attention began to wander. From Wordnik.com. [Austin and His Friends] Reference
I asked him if he didn't atrociously miss the life of the Quarter, and he surprised me by saying that he never had lived it. From Wordnik.com. [The Pool in the Desert] Reference
My dear Wallace, -- I must have expressed myself atrociously; I meant to say exactly the reverse of what you have understood. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference
Miss Arthur collapsed, and Céline continued to build up an atrociously unbecoming pile of puffs and curls in triumphant silence. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Street side of an atrociously ugly, and miserably inadequate building that partially houses three Departments of the great American. From Wordnik.com. [The Cab of the Sleeping Horse] Reference
The cocks are atrociously noisy, two in particular had such lengthened, cracked or quavering voices, that they were quite a nuisance. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Weak and sickly and not very bright, Gauda behaved in the manner he considered proper, and Metellus considered atrociously high-handed. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
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