adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an atrocious manner; with heinous wickedness or cruelty; shockingly.
1765. Bp. Lowth, Lett. Warburton, ii. Abusing me infamously and atrociously.
1831. Alford, in Life (1873), 67. The letter had an atrociously long sentence in it.
1859. T. Trollope, Tuscany, ix. 137. The populace … were atrociously incited to crimes of the deepest dye.
