"dreadful" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

dreadful adjetivo

dreadful + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 113
dreadful thing • dreadful place • dreadful day • dreadful mistake • dreadful moment • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 28
(4) moment, stench, instant
Kolokacji: 3
(7) news, secret, word, warning
Kolokacji: 4
(8) sight, mess
Kolokacji: 2
(10) fear, apprehension, terror
Kolokacji: 3
(14) start, shock, blow, slaughter
Kolokacji: 4
(15) crime, sin
Kolokacji: 2
(16) dream, nightmare
Kolokacji: 2
(18) weather, storm
Kolokacji: 2
(19) headache, burden
Kolokacji: 2
(20) possibility, anticipation
Kolokacji: 2
(21) sense, realization
Kolokacji: 2
(22) danger, menace, peril
Kolokacji: 3
(23) story, tale, lie, rumor
Kolokacji: 4
1. dreadful story = okropna historia dreadful story
2. dreadful tale = okropna opowieść dreadful tale
3. dreadful lie = okropne kłamstwo dreadful lie
  • It was shocking, but she was unable to prevent one dreadful lie piling up on the next.
  • And then there are all those horrible stories too absurd to be anything but dreadful lies.
  • And yet you come here, and tell me such a dreadful lie as you did just now, eh?
  • It would be dreadful to be caught out in a lie; dreadful at any time, but worse now, when he was being so friendly.
  • "I hope you haven't been believing the dreadful lies they've been printing about us."
  • "That's a dreadful lie, your teeth are clicking!"
  • A lie--and such a dreadful lie as that?
  • I had him picked up out of the kindness of my heart, but in return he told me a pack of the most dreadful lies.
  • The stone was used in antiquity by the Magi, being described by Pliny the Elder as one of their "dreadful lies".
  • Joachim Du Bellay once wrote of a woman, "Matilda told such dreadful lies, it made one gasp, and stretch one's eyes."
4. dreadful rumor = okropna pogłoska dreadful rumor
(24) curse, scourge
Kolokacji: 2
(25) calamity, tragedy
Kolokacji: 2
(26) irony, pun
Kolokacji: 2
(27) cold, heat
Kolokacji: 2
(28) movie, novel
Kolokacji: 2
adverbio + dreadful
Kolokacji: 5
most dreadful • truly dreadful • pretty dreadful • perfectly dreadful • absolutely dreadful
dreadful + preposición
Kolokacji: 3
dreadful in • dreadful for • dreadful to

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