The phrase "atrocious behavior" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe actions that are extremely bad or unacceptable, often in a moral or ethical context.
Example: "The company's decision to ignore safety regulations was met with outrage, as many considered it an example of atrocious behavior."
Alternatives: "appalling conduct" or "outrageous actions".
Please do forgive the U.S. Congress its atrocious behavior.
Apologizing for atrocious behavior is better than not trying to apologize.
Fenton concluded: "We have let Rupert Murdoch get away with this atrocious behavior for too long.
If liberals tend to believe that the government, especially the military, is capable of such atrocious behavior, perhaps it is because we are realists.
She may circle back to you in time and apologize for her atrocious behavior, but don't count on that any time soon.
Other supernatural phenomena dog the townspeople, including the Irish version of the Scottish wraith or German doppelgänger, a creature called "the Fetch," on whose actions the characters blame their atrocious behavior.
Bloom acknowledges that clinical psychopaths show no empathy and commit morally atrocious behaviors.
We were in the middle of apologizing to Matt and Kelli for our children's atrocious behaviors, when the waitress showed up and, in character as a 1950's Mom, told our kids to sit up straight, get their elbows off the table and then handed us all the best margaritas I'd ever had outside of Frontera Grill in Chicago.
Judith Warner, in her Sept. 4 review of "Sleeping With the Enemy," bemoans Hal Vaughan's stylistic descent, in discussing Coco Chanel's atrocious wartime behavior, into a variety of Gallic "verbal tics" and "vive-la-séduction silliness".
After learning about atrocious railroad behavior, new Positive Train Control, Fatigue, Cab Staffing, legal and statutory roadblocks, government claim hurdles, Damage caps, victims rights, compensation templates, "Pedal to the Metal" accusations of Metrolink's culture of ignoring passenger safety, and the latest legislative efforts and Bills up to the minute, well, I felt I had gained so much.
We are just entering — yes, already — the time of year for letting atrocious (but harmless) behavior roll off our backs whenever possible.
