The phrase "atrocious thing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action, event, or situation that is extremely bad or unpleasant.
Example: "The decision to ignore the community's needs was an atrocious thing to do."
Alternatives: "horrible act" or "appalling event".
But Woo's father said he hoped they would be caught: "Whoever is responsible for this atrocious thing must be brought to justice.
"The fact that on Holy Saturday they ripped him out of his home is the most atrocious thing," Mrs. Kemp said.
We couldn't do a Google search for every atrocious thing that happened one day and be inundated with terrifying results: Kidnappings, robberies, shootings.
"We saw some pretty atrocious things," Ms. Mercer said.
"We were doing atrocious things at the time to anyone suspected of Tiger associations," he said.
"Just because atrocious things have happened, you are not to rush to judgment," she said.
The extreme violence associated with the LRA, the abduction of children, the atrocious things that have been done, seem incomprehensible from the outside, but by thinking one's way into the idiom of daily life one can understand why the nightmare is of that particular kind.
Lord Dannatt, who stepped down in 2009, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Saturday: "Our government is now standing up to its responsibilities, and part of the harsh price, while this takes time, is that sadly if they have hostages in their hands, these atrocious things seem to be happening and seem to be going to continue to happen".
If morals are set to the side, people are capable of unbelievably atrocious things.
"We want to be here, amid those who saw these atrocious things," Hollande said outside Le Bataclan.
They transformed their country, they forgave the people that did atrocious things and a result, the country was unified -- and it's a great a country.
