Terrible
Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread; dreadful; formidable.
Excessive; extreme; severe.
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Terrible Quotations
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Winston Churchill
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
Oscar Wilde
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Oscar Wilde
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa
Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
Warren Buffett
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
Audrey Hepburn
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
Ernest Hemingway
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Plato
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Plato
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco
Terrible Translations
terrible in Dutch is schrikaanjagend, ijselijk
terrible in German is schrecklich
terrible in Italian is tremendo, terribile
terrible in Latin is atrox
terrible in Spanish is formidable, terrible, horrible
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