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awful adjectiv

1. care stârneşte frică sau veneraţie; înspăimântător, groaznic, grozav, teribil;

an awful accident o întâmplare groaznică.

2. impunător, măreţ, majestuos; de temut.

3. (fam.) teribil, straşnic.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Having lent him a night-cap, which he put on at once, and in which he made such an awful figure, that I have never worn one since, I left him to his rest.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It’s awful, Mr. Holmes—simply awful I wonder my hair isn’t grey.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She knew only that no man had ever affected her before as this one had, who shocked her from moment to moment with his awful grammar.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

"What awful event has taken place?" said she.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

His manner seemed changed, his voice was quick from the agitation of joy; and all that had been awful in his dignity seemed lost in tenderness.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

This apartment, to which she had given a date so ancient, a position so awful, proved to be one end of what the general's father had built.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

"Of ONE thing, my dear sister," kindly taking her hand, and speaking in an awful whisper,—"I may assure you;—and I WILL do it, because I know it must gratify you.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Oh, it was awful to see!

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oh, Jo, you are not going to wear that awful hat?

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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