Dutch English Dictionary

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vreselijk in English:

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.

English word "vreselijk"(horrible) occurs in sets:

Top 300 adjectives in Dutch 151-200

2. terrible


That's terrible.
Tom can write almost like a native speaker, but his pronunciation is terrible.
Suddenly, there was a period of terrible violence and hatred between blacks and whites.
Of course, they are suffering from terrible working conditions such as low wages and arbitrary layoffs, as well as from various forms of discrimination.
In the restaurant we were yesterday evening, we had to wait two hours before ordering. What a terrible establishment!
Mariela had a terrible time with her college advisors, who were worse at keeping her schedule together than she herself was.
You've been camping out ever since you came over here? Must have been terrible.
One month since entering high school ... not a single friend yet. That's really terrible, at this rate it will be middle-school all over again!!
I'm in a terrible hurry... for reasons I can't say, Dima replied to the woman. "Please, just let me try on that suit there."
Even though you came to the movie theater to see the movie, you fell asleep. That's terrible.
Isn't my boyfriend terrible? He always takes me to see horror movies, even though he knows I don't like them. I hate it.
Then, with a final, terrible scream, the monster flung itself off the mountain to its death on the rocks below.
tłumaczenie przykładu ze słówkiem he is terrible
Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.
I haven't seen anyone that enjoyed a better life than his, even though his living conditions were terrible.

English word "vreselijk"(terrible) occurs in sets:

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