The phrase "atrocious year" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a year that was particularly bad or filled with negative events or experiences.
Example: "2020 was an atrocious year for many due to the pandemic and its widespread impact on daily life."
Alternatives: "terrible year" or "dreadful year".
The cases show how hard it is to establish responsibility for atrocious crimes, 70 years after they took place.
The incumbents, the noble and the atrocious alike, stay in Albany year after year as if they were attached by tentacles to rocks in a tidal pool.
"For years I helped to propagate the kind of thinking that led to these atrocious acts, then for years I remained silent when I'd managed to turn my worldview around".
Contrary to what was stated above, Goethe did not write "English plays, Atrocious in content... .. three years before Garrick took over Drury Lane theatre.
Ban Ki-moon, the secretary general of the United Nations, said Wednesday that the organization was responsible for a "collective failure" to halt more than two years of atrocious violence in Syria, and he expressed hope that the crisis over that country's chemical weapons stockpile would be a catalyst toward a diplomatic solution.
She has lived with those atrocious feelings all these years, and the trauma even affected her marriage.
That is not to diminish the racism that we still have in the U.S., as evidenced by the atrocious comments of recent years by Edith, my wife's former friend.
Carly might be interesting if Nurse Bobbie Spencer (Jacklyn Zeman) came back to town and held her daughter accountable for her atrocious behavior over the years, and I could deal with Jason if his brain problems of late resulted in the return of the mild-mannered Jason from the good old days.
We are just entering — yes, already — the time of year for letting atrocious (but harmless) behavior roll off our backs whenever possible.
