The phrase "atrocious state" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or condition that is extremely bad or unacceptable.
Example: "The city was in an atrocious state after the storm, with debris scattered everywhere and many homes damaged."
Alternatives: "terrible condition" or "dreadful situation".
It is also disturbing, and not just because of what it says about the atrocious state of American intelligence.
Perhaps, like so many of his team-mates, he was reflecting on the atrocious state of his home stadium's pitch.
Ordinarily they would have been allowed to fail as a just punishment for the bad management and business practices that had got them into their atrocious state.
I'm staggered at how many toilets at work get blocked or left in an atrocious state – do people really do that in their own homes too?
A Labour Party policy review proposes a national register of private landlords (partly to at least make them pay tax), measures to improve the atrocious state of much of the privately-let stock, and tougher sanctions on rogue landlords.
My personal belief is that it's laughably hypocritical to claim you care about gender equality while supporting policies that would force women to carry pregnancies to term against their will, especially considering the atrocious state of maternal health and maternity leave in the US.
Atrocious state-run television and slow internet connections mean there is little competition for entertainment.
This newspaper, and in particular Ian Cobain and his colleagues, continue an immeasurable service to the British public in such investigative journalism, shining light on some very dark and atrocious activity of the British state.
While visiting Palestine, I learned that Palestinians were not only in the midst of an atrocious conflict with the Israeli State by way of settlers, displacement, and discrimination but that in actuality what we were witnessing was indeed occupation and in fact an open-air prison--a violation of many, if not all, human rights.
Of Arizona's atrocious new law that allows the state police to arrest anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant, he says:Arizona's law might give the nation information about whether judicious enforcement discourages illegality.
That word is offensive, but what is even more atrocious is us not having a state budget and disrespecting every single citizen...".
