atrocious (adj.)
- aberrant
- abject
- abnormal
- abominable
- abusive
- acute
- afflictive
- agonizing
- animal
- anthropophagous
- appalling
- arrant
- atrocious
- awful
- backhand
- backhanded
- bad
- baneful
- barbaric
- barbarous
- base
- beastly
- beggarly
- bestial
- biting
- black
- blamable
- blameworthy
- bloodthirsty
- bloody
- bloody-minded
- brutal
- brute
- brutish
- calumnious
- cannibalistic
- cheesy
- contemptible
- contumelious
- criminal
- cruel
- crummy
- crying
- damnable
- dark
- debased
- degraded
- degrading
- delinquent
- demoniac
- demoniacal
- deplorable
- depraved
- desperate
- despicable
- detestable
- deviant
- devilish
- diabolic
- dire
- dirty
- disgraceful
- disgusting
- displeasing
- distasteful
- distressing
- dreadful
- egregious
- enormous
- evil
- excruciating
- execrable
- fell
- feral
- ferine
- ferocious
- fetid
- fiendish
- fierce
- filthy
- flagitious
- flagrant
- foul
- frightful
- fulsome
- ghastly
- glaring
- grave
- grievous
- grim
- grisly
- gross
- gruesome
- hard
- harrowing
- harsh
- hateful
- heinous
- hellish
- hideous
- horrendous
- horrible
- horrid
- horrific
- horrifying
- humiliating
- hurtful
- icky
- ignominious
- illegal
- improper
- inappropriate
- incorrect
- indecorous
- infamous
- infernal
- inhuman
- inhumane
- iniquitous
- insolent
- insulting
- knavish
- lamentable
- left-handed
- little
- loathsome
- lousy
- low
- low-down
- lumpen
- malign
- malignant
- mangy
- mean
- measly
- merciless
- miserable
- monstrous
- murderous
- nasty
- naughty
- nefarious
- noisome
- noncivilized
- notorious
- obnoxious
- obscene
- odious
- off-base
- off-color
- offensive
- outrageous
- painful
- paltry
- paroxysmal
- peccant
- petty
- piercing
- pitiable
- pitiful
- pitiless
- poignant
- poky
- poor
- pungent
- racking
- rank
- regrettable
- reprehensible
- reprobate
- rotten
- ruthless
- sacrilegious
- sad
- sadistic
- sanguinary
- sanguineous
- satanic
- savage
- scabby
- scandalous
- scrubby
- scruffy
- scummy
- scurrilous
- scurvy
- severe
- shabby
- shameful
- shameless
- sharp
- shocking
- shoddy
- shooting
- sickening
- sinful
- small
- sordid
- spasmodic
- squalid
- stabbing
- stinging
- subhuman
- terrible
- torturous
- tragic
- truculent
- unchristian
- uncivilized
- unclean
- undue
- unfit
- unfitting
- unforgivable
- ungentle
- unhuman
- unlawful
- unmentionable
- unpardonable
- unrighteous
- unseemly
- unspeakable
- unsuitable
- untamed
- unworthy
- vicious
- vile
- villainous
- wicked
- wild
- woeful
- wolfish
- worst
- worthless
- wretched
- wrong
- wrongful
The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
