1. dreadful
dreadful weather
This is the first time I've seen such a dreadful movie.
The massacre in Norway and the recent rebellion and the booty in England, are dreadful in consideration of the circumstances that the world drifted into.
I've never heard anything more dreadful.
It is dreadful that a nuclear crisis has hit Japan.
The consequences of Sendai's earthquake were dreadful!
The yacht was at the mercy of the dreadful storm.
Eleanor suffered severely for her conjugal affection even after the death of her husband by being imprisoned for the dreadful period of forty-three years.
It was good for both of us to get away from that dreadful new woman at work.
Some people love going to the opera, but for others there's no more dreadful way to spend three hours.
It was a dreadful shok for poor Charles to discover that his wife was cheating on him!
1. I had a dreadful dream last night. / 2. Because he really did have a dreadful habit of... / 3. In the night I heard a dreadful scream. / 4. There's been a dreadful mistake.
If I would have let those fears hold me back, I would still be working a job doing energy audits, is what I did before this, in houses, which is going and checking houses for energy efficiency, and it was just dreadful.
If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.
2. awful
How awful!
I'm afraid there's been some awful news.
I have a nasty feeling that something awful is going to happen.
I had an awful experience today, so I'm going to have a beer and go straight to bed.
Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.
I dare not probe too deeply, lest I uncover the awful truth!
I also heard that it'd been awful around the Olympic Flame.
Subdued girls are generally the prettiest I reckon. The loud, bustling ones are awful.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
I realized then that this awful cellar was the only place that could save our lives.
This has been the most awful day in my eleven-year-old life.
Both the food and the weather were awful, so we went home early.
With such awful weather outside, can you believe it's July?
We should therefore stop this awful campaign and tell the people of Ireland the truth.
I'm such a bad drawer, my paitings are awful.
Inglês palavra "straszny okropny"(awful) ocorre em conjuntos:
FCE Unit 2 - part 13. terrible
That's terrible.
Tom can write almost like a native speaker, but his pronunciation is terrible.
Suddenly, there was a period of terrible violence and hatred between blacks and whites.
Of course, they are suffering from terrible working conditions such as low wages and arbitrary layoffs, as well as from various forms of discrimination.
In the restaurant we were yesterday evening, we had to wait two hours before ordering. What a terrible establishment!
Mariela had a terrible time with her college advisors, who were worse at keeping her schedule together than she herself was.
You've been camping out ever since you came over here? Must have been terrible.
One month since entering high school ... not a single friend yet. That's really terrible, at this rate it will be middle-school all over again!!
I'm in a terrible hurry... for reasons I can't say, Dima replied to the woman. "Please, just let me try on that suit there."
Even though you came to the movie theater to see the movie, you fell asleep. That's terrible.
Isn't my boyfriend terrible? He always takes me to see horror movies, even though he knows I don't like them. I hate it.
Then, with a final, terrible scream, the monster flung itself off the mountain to its death on the rocks below.
tłumaczenie przykładu ze słówkiem he is terrible
Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.
I haven't seen anyone that enjoyed a better life than his, even though his living conditions were terrible.