FRIGHTFUL

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frightful adjectiv

1. groaznic, îngrozitor, înfiorător, înspăimântător, înfricoşător; grozav, teribil, nemaipomenit, nemaivăzut, nemaiauzit;

(fig.) he has a frightful amount of work are enorm de lucru.

2. (fam.) grozav de urât, hidos, slut.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Van Helsing had not intended to recall her frightful experience.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I lay for two months on the point of death; my ravings, as I afterwards heard, were frightful; I called myself the murderer of William, of Justine, and of Clerval.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Her eyes gleamed like fire as she confronted his mother, and broke into a frightful laugh.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

You may well say so, ma'am: it was frightful!

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Oh! Mr. Tilney, how frightful!

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Suddenly from the near belt of trees there broke forth a group of twelve or fifteen Indians, running for their lives, and at their very heels two of those frightful monsters which had disturbed our camp and pursued me upon my solitary journey.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was frightful.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

The cup of life was poisoned for ever, and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart, I saw around me nothing but a dense and frightful darkness, penetrated by no light but the glimmer of two eyes that glared upon me.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I happened to glance at Ham, then looking out to sea upon the distant light, and a frightful thought came into my mind—not that his face was angry, for it was not; I recall nothing but an expression of stern determination in it—that if ever he encountered Steerforth, he would kill him.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I knew that minutes, even seconds of delay, might mean hours of danger to Lucy, if she had had again one of those frightful relapses; and I went round the house to try if I could find by chance an entry anywhere.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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