"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
(24) curse, scourge
Kolokacji: 2
(25) calamity, tragedy
Kolokacji: 2
(26) irony, pun
Kolokacji: 2
1. dreadful irony = fatalna ironia dreadful irony
  • Finally, is anyone else struck by the dreadful irony of Djokovic being hoisted by his own petard in the matter of the pre-serve ball bounce?
  • There is a dreadful irony in the thought that war, the destroyer of men, finally changed man into a beastlike creature.
  • 'Dear God, what dreadful irony that I should call on you for help!'
  • And only now, with dreadful irony, came Takvi's report, "Weapons powered up."
  • Curious that the French could see no contradiction in the two objects, Ramage thought; the dreadful irony that a Tree of Liberty stood in the shade of a guillotine.
  • There was a dreadful irony in his voice-a sense of profound mistrust in the words even as he offered them.
  • There was some dreadful irony in what he knew, and he could not tell her, even if he would have.
  • The dreadful, dreadful irony of it!
  • If the attacks on the World Trade Center made reflexive cynicism feel callow, the remedy is not less irony, but harder, sharper, more dreadful irony.
  • But Lord Crome meant something much blacker and bitterer than that when he said, with a dreadful irony, that it commemorated a romance in his family.
2. dreadful pun = okropna gra słów dreadful pun
(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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