Hungarian English Dictionary

magyar - English

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1. horrible


I just wish we could leave this horrible place.
It's really horrible.
I didn't have time to recover before I came down with another horrible cold.
I've been having a terrible headache since last night, I feel horrible, it's the worst feeling.
Treasure chests abound in the dungeon, but so do horrible monsters.
I gasped with surprise at the horrible picture of the starving people.
In due course, eating meat will be considered as horrible as eating human flesh.
You've got to help me! Every night I have the same horrible dream.
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
This soup smells horrible. Do you think it's gone off?
These days when I hear about these horrible incidents on the news I get the feeling that more and more young people are losing their ability to distinguish between real and virtual worlds.
Her hair stood on end at the sight of the horrible accident.
It was a horrible moment. Our house had burnt down to the ground.
I forgot about her birthday and I feel horrible now.
I don't understand him because his pronunciation is horrible.

2. 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.