"dreadful" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- 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."
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