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GHASTLY
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Traducere în limba română
ghastly I. adjectiv
1. groaznic, teribil, îngrozitor, înfiorător, înspăimântător, oribil.
2. dezgustător, nesuferit.
3. alb ca varul, palid, galben (ca un mort), cadaveric.
4. stins, ofilit,
ghastly II. adverb
grozav, teribil, groaznic de.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
Our unfortunate client rose with a ghastly face.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Once again we went through that ghastly operation.
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
I would have lived to be old, in the wretched streets—and to wander about, avoided, in the dark—and to see the day break on the ghastly line of houses, and remember how the same sun used to shine into my room, and wake me once—I would have done even that, to save her!
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
Bannister’s face was ghastly.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On the watch last night I saw It, like a man, tall and thin, and ghastly pale. It was in the bows, and looking out. I crept behind It, and gave It my knife; but the knife went through It, empty as the air.
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)