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an appalling crime

  • 1 atroz

    adj.
    1 terrible, awful.
    hace un frío atroz it's terribly o awfully cold
    2 atrocious, horrible, inhumane, abominable.
    3 agonizing, excruciating.
    * * *
    ► adjetivo (pl atroces)
    1 (bárbaro) atrocious, outrageous
    2 familiar (enorme) enormous, huge, awful
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    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=terrible) atrocious; (=cruel) cruel, inhuman; (=escandaloso) outrageous
    2) * (=enorme) huge, terrific; (=malísimo) dreadful, awful
    * * *
    adjetivo (brutal, cruel) appalling; ( uso hiperbólico) atrocious, awful
    * * *
    = dismal, atrocious, brutal, frightful, dire, abysmal, excruciating, hideous, gruesome, ferocious, god-awful, heinous.
    Ex. The persistence of a dismal image is a most worrying phenomenon and one which must change if progress is to be made by SLIS.
    Ex. The public library's selection of books for small boys is atrocious.
    Ex. Few, if any of us, want to be involved in murder, but the brutal act of one person killing another, the motives for doing so, the personal and social consequences, all hold our attention, as newspaper editors well know and exploit = Pocos, si existe alguien, desea verse implicado en un asesinato, pero el acto brutal de una persona asesinando a otra, los motivos para hacerlo, las consecuencias personales y sociales, todo capta nuestra atención, como bien saben y explotan los directores de periódicos.
    Ex. 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.
    Ex. Throughout the process of development, debate and enactment of the Digital Millennium Act in the USA, many dire forebodings were envisaged for the library profession.
    Ex. The communications infrastructure in Africa varies from very good to abysmal = La infraestructura de comunicaciones en †frica oscila entre muy buena y pésima.
    Ex. Loneliness can involve excruciating physical pain as well as harrowing mental suffering.
    Ex. 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.
    Ex. We hear horrendous tales of shootings in schools and colleges and gruesome murder of parents.
    Ex. One by one, he wiped the floor with opponents who had spoken in the debate -- with a ferocious blend of rant, rhetoric and rumbustious counterattack.
    Ex. The director and deputies deserve the most recognition because they actually had to give up time with their families for the god-awful places we sent them.
    Ex. There are several different ways to make a stink bomb, all of which involving the use of chemicals which react in a way to create a particularly heinous odor.
    * * *
    adjetivo (brutal, cruel) appalling; ( uso hiperbólico) atrocious, awful
    * * *
    = dismal, atrocious, brutal, frightful, dire, abysmal, excruciating, hideous, gruesome, ferocious, god-awful, heinous.

    Ex: The persistence of a dismal image is a most worrying phenomenon and one which must change if progress is to be made by SLIS.

    Ex: The public library's selection of books for small boys is atrocious.
    Ex: Few, if any of us, want to be involved in murder, but the brutal act of one person killing another, the motives for doing so, the personal and social consequences, all hold our attention, as newspaper editors well know and exploit = Pocos, si existe alguien, desea verse implicado en un asesinato, pero el acto brutal de una persona asesinando a otra, los motivos para hacerlo, las consecuencias personales y sociales, todo capta nuestra atención, como bien saben y explotan los directores de periódicos.
    Ex: 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.
    Ex: Throughout the process of development, debate and enactment of the Digital Millennium Act in the USA, many dire forebodings were envisaged for the library profession.
    Ex: The communications infrastructure in Africa varies from very good to abysmal = La infraestructura de comunicaciones en †frica oscila entre muy buena y pésima.
    Ex: Loneliness can involve excruciating physical pain as well as harrowing mental suffering.
    Ex: 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.
    Ex: We hear horrendous tales of shootings in schools and colleges and gruesome murder of parents.
    Ex: One by one, he wiped the floor with opponents who had spoken in the debate -- with a ferocious blend of rant, rhetoric and rumbustious counterattack.
    Ex: The director and deputies deserve the most recognition because they actually had to give up time with their families for the god-awful places we sent them.
    Ex: There are several different ways to make a stink bomb, all of which involving the use of chemicals which react in a way to create a particularly heinous odor.

    * * *
    1 (brutal, cruel) appalling, terrible
    2 (uso hiperbólico) atrocious, awful, dreadful ( BrE)
    tengo un dolor de cabeza atroz I have an atrocious o an awful headache
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    atroz adjetivo
    atrocious
    atroz adjetivo
    1 (pésimo, insoportable) atrocious
    2 fam (enorme) enormous, tremendous
    ' atroz' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    insensibilidad
    - barbaridad
    - muerte
    English:
    agonizing
    - appalling
    - atrocious
    - dreadful
    - excruciating
    - heinous
    - hell
    - hideous
    - raging
    - unspeakable
    - vicious
    - crippling
    - dire
    - terrible
    * * *
    atroz adj
    1. [cruel] [crimen, tortura] horrific, barbaric
    2. [enorme]
    hace un frío atroz it's terribly o bitterly cold;
    es de una fealdad atroz he's terribly o incredibly ugly
    3. [muy malo] atrocious, awful
    * * *
    adj
    1 appalling, atrocious
    2
    :
    un éxito atroz a smash hit
    * * *
    atroz adj, pl atroces : atrocious, appalling
    ♦ atrozamente adv
    * * *
    atroz adj
    1. (cruel) atrocious / appalling
    2. (enorme) terrible
    hace un frío atroz it's terribly cold / it's freezing

    Spanish-English dictionary > atroz

  • 2 deplorable

    adj.
    deplorable (suceso, comportamiento).
    * * *
    1 deplorable, regrettable
    * * *
    ADJ [conducta] deplorable; [estado] appalling
    * * *
    adjetivo deplorable

    en un estado deplorable — in a dreadful o an appalling state

    * * *
    = deplorable, woeful, disgraceful, pitiful.
    Ex. We agree with Price that using the words 'citation' and 'reference' interchangeably is a deplorable waste of a good technical term.
    Ex. In this woeful film, under the mantle of a 'bitter-sweet romantic comedy,' Poliakoff lets his maudlin sentiments and fears run riot.
    Ex. He maintains that indexers are shamefully treated, their pay is disgraceful and they are almost never acknowledged in the book.
    Ex. Today's pitiful situation must be improved drastically to cope with the overwhelming demand of clients for better library service.
    ----
    * condición deplorable = dismaying condition.
    * * *
    adjetivo deplorable

    en un estado deplorable — in a dreadful o an appalling state

    * * *
    = deplorable, woeful, disgraceful, pitiful.

    Ex: We agree with Price that using the words 'citation' and 'reference' interchangeably is a deplorable waste of a good technical term.

    Ex: In this woeful film, under the mantle of a 'bitter-sweet romantic comedy,' Poliakoff lets his maudlin sentiments and fears run riot.
    Ex: He maintains that indexers are shamefully treated, their pay is disgraceful and they are almost never acknowledged in the book.
    Ex: Today's pitiful situation must be improved drastically to cope with the overwhelming demand of clients for better library service.
    * condición deplorable = dismaying condition.

    * * *
    deplorable
    su conducta ha sido deplorable he has behaved deplorably, his behavior has been deplorable
    me lo devolvió en un estado deplorable he returned it to me in a dreadful o a shocking o an appalling state
    * * *

    deplorable adjetivo
    deplorable
    deplorable adjetivo deplorable: cometieron un acto deplorable, they committed a dreadful crime
    volvió a casa en un estado deplorable, he came back home in an appalling state
    ' deplorable' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    lamentable
    English:
    deplorable
    - woeful
    * * *
    [comportamiento, espectáculo, estado] deplorable; [aspecto] sorry, pitiful
    * * *
    adj deplorable
    * * *
    : deplorable

    Spanish-English dictionary > deplorable

  • 3 criminal

    adj.
    criminal.
    criminal de guerra war criminal
    f. & m.
    1 criminal, crook, bandit, evildoer.
    2 criminal, killer.
    * * *
    1 criminal
    2 familiar (muy malo) awful, criminal, appalling
    1 criminal
    \
    criminal de guerra war criminal
    * * *
    noun mf. adj.
    * * *
    1.
    ADJ [comportamiento, acto] criminal

    es criminal desperdiciar tanta comida — it's criminal o a crime to waste so much food

    2.
    SMF (=asesino) murderer, killer
    * * *
    adjetivo/masculino y femenino criminal
    * * *
    adjetivo/masculino y femenino criminal
    * * *
    criminal1
    1 = criminal, felon.

    Ex: But whether women are delinquent, offenders, or criminals aside, we are still left with the fact that only four classes of persons are singled out in the Library of Congress subject heading list as criminals.

    Ex: A flyer was also provided with the letter explaining voting rights for felons.
    * criminal de guerra = war criminal.

    criminal2

    Ex: This is a collection of articles on the theme: Books for children with murderous, shocking, menacing endings.

    * delito criminal = digital crime.
    * estatuto criminal = criminal statute.
    * investigación criminal = criminal investigation.
    * juicio criminal = criminal trial.
    * negligencia criminal = criminal negligence.
    * ser acusado de delito criminal = face + criminal charge.
    * tribunal criminal = criminal tribunal.

    * * *
    ‹causa/querella› criminal
    es criminal lo que han hecho con ese edificio tan bonito ( fam); it's criminal what they've done to that beautiful building ( colloq)
    criminal
    Compuesto:
    war criminal
    * * *

    criminal adjetivo, masculino y femenino
    criminal
    criminal mf & adjetivo criminal
    ' criminal' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abogada
    - abogado
    - antecedente
    - captura
    - capturar
    - criminalista
    - delictiva
    - delictivo
    - delincuente
    - derecha
    - derecho
    - historial
    - imprudencia
    - INTERPOL
    - maleante
    - muerte
    - navajera
    - navajero
    - penal
    - presunta
    - presunto
    - rehabilitación
    - reo
    - crimen
    - delinquir
    - desarmado
    - estafa
    - juicio
    - mafioso
    - malhechor
    - matón
    English:
    apprehend
    - arrest
    - catch up
    - CID
    - cold-blooded
    - composite
    - contempt
    - criminal
    - criminal damage
    - criminal law
    - criminal record
    - crook
    - dossier
    - exposure
    - felon
    - find out
    - hang
    - harbor
    - harbour
    - hardened
    - Interpol
    - large
    - lead
    - nail
    - pursue
    - pursuit
    - put away
    - shelter
    - straight
    - war criminal
    - whoever
    - crime
    - defendant
    - detection
    - disqualify
    - expose
    - flush
    - marauder
    - offender
    - offense
    - prosecute
    - put
    - record
    - reopen
    - tip
    - trace
    - track
    - vicious
    - villain
    - wanted
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    1. [del crimen] criminal
    2. Fam [horrible] criminal
    ♦ nmf
    criminal
    criminal de guerra war criminal
    * * *
    m/f & adj criminal
    * * *
    criminal adj & nmf
    : criminal
    * * *
    criminal n criminal

    Spanish-English dictionary > criminal

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