The phrase "atrocious practice" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a behavior or method that is extremely bad or unacceptable.
Example: "The company's decision to cut corners on safety measures is an atrocious practice that endangers employees."
Alternatives: "appalling behavior" or "deplorable action".
The distinction between authoritarianism and totalitarianism was drawn in the first place to shed light on certain novel atrocious practices of our times.
Their power is the reason why it took so long to secure a right to roam in England and Wales, why wildlife is so poorly protected, why we have been slower than any other country in Europe to restore unproductive land and reintroduce missing species, and why atrocious practices like snaring and the continued use of lead shot (rather than non-toxic substitutes) continue.
Now we are exposing Starbucks' atrocious labor practices in our newest campaign, Stop Starbucks.
Particularly atrocious is the practice of "double tap" drone strikes, where a suspected militant is fired on, then those who arrive at the scene to give help are blasted, as well.
Sanitation in food stalls -- where the virus might have first jumped to humans -- is atrocious, and hospitals failed to practice basic infection control.
The practice of representing atrocious suffering as something to be deplored, and, if possible, stopped, enters the history of images with a specific subject: the sufferings endured by a civilian population at the hands of a victorious army on the rampage.
Arendt suggested that human beings commit atrocities from a kind of stupidity, falling into a condition of thoughtlessness in which they collude in practices that inflict atrocious suffering on other human beings.
But our print media has gone beyond the necessary and legitimate communication of information by continually publishing photographs of the most atrocious aspects of the drug war, a practice that some feel verges on a pornography of violence.
