Horrendo in english
Horrific
pronunciation: hɔrɪfɪk part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: hɔrɪfɪk part of speech: adjective
In gestures
horrendo = harrowing ; frightful ; horrendous ; horrifying ; hideous ; horrible ; grotesquely ugly.
Example: See Michael R. Booth, 'English Melodrama', for further details of this harrowing tale.Example: The book, written by a man who is not a military historian as such, is concerned above all with showing the war's hideousness, its frightful human cost, its pathos and loss, and its essential failure to achieve its objectives.Example: If we were confronted with the alternatives that Mr. Gorman described this morning, it would have been a horrendous undertaking.Example: The article 'A horrifying problem' examines the controversial issue about whether to remove books about satanism from the library shelves.Example: The book focuses on images where hideous atrocities -- e.g., murder, blasphemy, wanton destruction and even cannibalism -- are shown to be part of the daily life of the common people of Paris during the revolution.Example: Not saving the wildlife is too horrible to contemplate, but saving it will require us to accept harsh realities and abandon romantic notions.Example: In all three novels, a love-stricken swain believes that he is disporting himself with the handsome object of his affections, when actually he lies abed with the grotesquely ugly maidservant of his mistress.