atroz
dismal ; atrocious ; brutal ; frightful ; dire ; abysmal ; excruciating ; hideous ; gruesome ; ferocious ; god-awful ; heinous ; egregious.
The persistence of a dismal image is a most worrying phenomenon and one which must change if progress is to be made by SLIS.
The public library's selection of books for small boys is atrocious.
Few, if any of us, want to be involved in murder, but the brutal act of one person killing another, the motives for doing so, the personal and social consequences, all hold our attention, as newspaper editors well know and exploit = Few, if any of us, want to be involved in murder, but the brutal act of one person killing another, the motives for doing so, the personal and social consequences, all hold our attention, as newspaper editors well know and exploit.
The book, written by a man who is not a military historian as such, is concerned above all with showing the war's hideousness, its frightful human cost, its pathos and loss, and its essential failure to achieve its objectives.
Throughout the process of development, debate and enactment of the Digital Millennium Act in the USA, many dire forebodings were envisaged for the library profession.
The communications infrastructure in Africa varies from very good to abysmal = The communications infrastructure in Africa varies from very good to abysmal.
Loneliness can involve excruciating physical pain as well as harrowing mental suffering.
The book focuses on images where hideous atrocities - e.g., murder, blasphemy, wanton destruction and even cannibalism - are shown to be part of the daily life of the common people of Paris during the revolution.
We hear horrendous tales of shootings in schools and colleges and gruesome murder of parents.
One by one, he wiped the floor with opponents who had spoken in the debate - with a ferocious blend of rant, rhetoric and rumbustious counterattack.
The director and deputies deserve the most recognition because they actually had to give up time with their families for the god-awful places we sent them.
There are several different ways to make a stink bomb, all of which involving the use of chemicals which react in a way to create a particularly heinous odor.
That is outrageous in itself, an egregious departure from protecting citizens against abuses of power.
