DREADFUL

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Traducere în limba română

dreadful I. adjectiv

înspăimântător, îngrozitor; teribil, grozav.

dreadful II. substantiv

(şi a penny dreadful) (fam.) roman senzaţional.

They had a dreadful time of it with her.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I may find a way from this dreadful place.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I'm afraid I shall do something dreadful some day, and spoil my life, and make everybody hate me.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I told you it was a dreadful accident, my loving him; but I can't help myself.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

She had fainted with horror upon entering the room in the morning and seeing that dreadful company round the table.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There is no use writing of the details of that dreadful event.

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

Soames will be in a dreadful fidget until we are able to tell him something positive.

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

“It was dreadful to hear her,” said I.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If she could not have been angry with Frank Churchill too, it would have been dreadful.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

To have had him join their family dinner-party, and see all their deficiencies, would have been dreadful!

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)