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terrorizing

  • 1 тероризування

    Українсько-англійський юридичний словник > тероризування

  • 2 terror

    terrorizing

    Indonesia-Inggris kamus > terror

  • 3 терроризирование

    Новый русско-английский словарь > терроризирование

  • 4 терроризирования

    Новый русско-английский словарь > терроризирования

  • 5 terrorisierend

    Deutsch-Englisches Wörterbuch > terrorisierend

  • 6 penteroran

    terrorizing.

    Malay-English dictionary > penteroran

  • 7 тероризирање

    terrorizing, terrorisation

    Македонско-англиски речник > тероризирање

  • 8 tela de tejido de esponja

    • terrorizing
    • terse

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > tela de tejido de esponja

  • 9 tela de toalla

    • terrorizing
    • terse

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > tela de toalla

  • 10 tela esponja

    • terrorizing
    • terse

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > tela esponja

  • 11 tedhiş

    terrorizing, terrorization. - etmek /ı/ to terrorize.

    Saja Türkçe - İngilizce Sözlük > tedhiş

  • 12 terror

    m.
    terror.
    le da terror it terrifies her
    me da terror pensar en las vacaciones con los niños I shudder to think what the holidays with the children will be like
    esa banda de delincuentes es el terror del pueblo this gang of criminals is terrorizing the village
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    1 (gen) terror
    \
    dar terror to terrify
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *

    me da terror pensar que tengo que hablar con él — the thought of having to speak to him terrifies me, it terrifies me to think I have to speak to him

    * * *
    a) ( miedo) terror

    me da terror or le tengo terror — it terrifies me, I find it terrifying

    b) ( persona) terror
    * * *
    = terror, horror.
    Ex. The idea was exquisite but full of terror.
    Ex. In recent years, then, there has been much less scaremongering about the imagined horrors of drowning in a sea of paper.
    ----
    * campaña de terror = terror campaign.
    * dar terror = scare + the living daylights out of.
    * llenar de terror = terrorise [terrorize, -USA], terrify.
    * novela de terror = terror novel, horror story.
    * película de terror = horror movie.
    * * *
    a) ( miedo) terror

    me da terror or le tengo terror — it terrifies me, I find it terrifying

    b) ( persona) terror
    * * *
    = terror, horror.

    Ex: The idea was exquisite but full of terror.

    Ex: In recent years, then, there has been much less scaremongering about the imagined horrors of drowning in a sea of paper.
    * campaña de terror = terror campaign.
    * dar terror = scare + the living daylights out of.
    * llenar de terror = terrorise [terrorize, -USA], terrify.
    * novela de terror = terror novel, horror story.
    * película de terror = horror movie.

    * * *
    1 (miedo) terror
    un régimen de terror a reign of terror
    sembró el terror entre los campesinos it inspired terror among the peasants
    me da terror or le tengo terror it terrifies me, I find it terrifying
    2 (persona) terror
    es el terror de la ciudad he is terrorizing the city, he is the terror of the city
    este niño es un terror this child is a terror
    es el terror de la carretera ( hum); she is the terror of the roads ( hum)
    * * *

    terror sustantivo masculino
    a) ( miedo) terror;


    de terror ‹novela/relato› horror ( before n)

    terror sustantivo masculino terror
    una novela/película de terror, a horror novel/film
    ' terror' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    chillido
    - despertarse
    - espanto
    - horror
    - horrorosa
    - horroroso
    - miedo
    - pavor
    - película
    - grito
    - presa
    - reinar
    English:
    fright
    - horror film
    - horror story
    - terror
    - dread
    - frozen
    - horror
    - screech
    - shriek
    - terrified
    * * *
    terror nm
    1. [miedo] terror;
    de terror [cine, película] horror;
    dar terror a alguien: le da terror it terrifies her;
    me da terror pensar en las vacaciones con los niños I shudder to think what the holidays with the children will be like;
    tener terror a algo/alguien to be terrified of sth/sb;
    sembrar el terror to spread terror
    2. [persona] terror;
    esa banda de delincuentes es el terror del pueblo this gang of criminals is terrorizing the village
    3.
    el Terror Hist [en la revolución francesa] the Terror
    * * *
    m terror
    * * *
    terror nm
    : terror
    * * *
    terror n terror

    Spanish-English dictionary > terror

  • 13 aterrador

    adj.
    terrifying, frightful, frightening, awesome.
    * * *
    1 terrifying, frightful
    * * *
    (f. - aterradora)
    adj.
    frightening, terrifying
    * * *
    * * *
    - dora adjetivo terrifying
    * * *
    = frightening, terrifying, terrorising [terrorizing, -USA], frightful, fear-inducing, hideous, hair-raising, groundshaking, creepy [creepier -comp., creepiest -sup.].
    Ex. No echo of so frightening a concept, 'class', ever lingers within the hushed precincts of our libraries.
    Ex. To the general public 'the female librarian is still angular, elderly, acidulous and terrifying', to use Geoffrey Langley's words, 'and a male librarian is impossible under any hypothesis'.
    Ex. He perceived that his life threatened to be an interminable succession of these mortifying interviews unless he could discover a way or ways to deal with her surly and terrorizing ferocity.
    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. The author suggests that the ability to enjoy fear-inducing media increases with age.
    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. This ' hair-raising' experience will allow students to have a better understanding of what energy is and why it's so important.
    Ex. The author gives an insider's perspective on what it feels like to be an Arab since the groundshaking events of 1967 when Arab hopes were unexpectedly shattered by the outcome of the Arab Israeli war.
    Ex. For me, it's like those really creepy films I used to like watching when I was a kid.
    * * *
    - dora adjetivo terrifying
    * * *
    = frightening, terrifying, terrorising [terrorizing, -USA], frightful, fear-inducing, hideous, hair-raising, groundshaking, creepy [creepier -comp., creepiest -sup.].

    Ex: No echo of so frightening a concept, 'class', ever lingers within the hushed precincts of our libraries.

    Ex: To the general public 'the female librarian is still angular, elderly, acidulous and terrifying', to use Geoffrey Langley's words, 'and a male librarian is impossible under any hypothesis'.
    Ex: He perceived that his life threatened to be an interminable succession of these mortifying interviews unless he could discover a way or ways to deal with her surly and terrorizing ferocity.
    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: The author suggests that the ability to enjoy fear-inducing media increases with age.
    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: This ' hair-raising' experience will allow students to have a better understanding of what energy is and why it's so important.
    Ex: The author gives an insider's perspective on what it feels like to be an Arab since the groundshaking events of 1967 when Arab hopes were unexpectedly shattered by the outcome of the Arab Israeli war.
    Ex: For me, it's like those really creepy films I used to like watching when I was a kid.

    * * *
    terrifying
    * * *

    aterrador
    ◊ - dora adjetivo

    terrifying
    aterrador,-ora adjetivo terrifying

    ' aterrador' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    aterradora
    English:
    chilling
    - frightful
    - terrifying
    - terrifyingly
    - blood
    - fearful
    - fearsome
    - frightening
    * * *
    aterrador, -ora adj
    terrifying
    * * *
    adj frightening, terrifying
    * * *
    aterrador, - dora adj
    : terrifying
    * * *
    aterrador adj terrifying

    Spanish-English dictionary > aterrador

  • 14 bochornoso

    adj.
    1 shameful, embarrassing, humiliating.
    2 sultry, scorching, muggy.
    * * *
    1 (sofocante) hot, sultry, muggy
    2 figurado (vergonzoso) disgraceful, shameful
    * * *
    (f. - bochornosa)
    adj.
    2) shameful, embarrassing
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) [tiempo, día] close *, stuffy *
    2) (=vergonzoso) degrading, shameful

    es un espectáculo bochornoso — it is a degrading spectacle, it is a shameful sight

    * * *
    - sa adjetivo
    1) < tiempo> sultry, muggy; < calor> sticky
    2) <espectáculo/situación> embarrassing
    * * *
    = mortifying, sultry [sultrier -comp., sultriest -sup.], embarrassing.
    Ex. He perceived that his life threatened to be an interminable succession of these mortifying interviews unless he could discover a way or ways to deal with her surly and terrorizing ferocity.
    Ex. The day was sultry, and some of the party, being parched with thirst, left the line of march, and scrambled down the bank of the river to drink.
    Ex. This is highly embarrassing for the innocent reader and for the apologetic library staff.
    ----
    * de un modo bochornoso = shamefully.
    * fracaso bochornoso = embarrassing failure.
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo
    1) < tiempo> sultry, muggy; < calor> sticky
    2) <espectáculo/situación> embarrassing
    * * *
    = mortifying, sultry [sultrier -comp., sultriest -sup.], embarrassing.

    Ex: He perceived that his life threatened to be an interminable succession of these mortifying interviews unless he could discover a way or ways to deal with her surly and terrorizing ferocity.

    Ex: The day was sultry, and some of the party, being parched with thirst, left the line of march, and scrambled down the bank of the river to drink.
    Ex: This is highly embarrassing for the innocent reader and for the apologetic library staff.
    * de un modo bochornoso = shamefully.
    * fracaso bochornoso = embarrassing failure.

    * * *
    A ‹tiempo› sultry, muggy; ‹calor› sticky
    hacía un día bochornoso it was a close o muggy day
    B ‹espectáculo/situación› embarrassing
    * * *

    bochornoso
    ◊ -sa adjetivo

    1 ‹ tiempo› sultry, muggy;
    ‹ calor› sticky;
    ◊ hacía un día bochornoso it was a close o muggy day

    2 ‹espectáculo/situación› embarrassing
    bochornoso,-a adjetivo
    1 (caluroso) sultry, close, muggy
    (sofocante) stifling
    2 fig (vergonzoso) shameful, embarrassing
    ' bochornoso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bochornosa
    - cargado
    English:
    clammy
    - close
    - muggy
    - sticky
    - sultry
    * * *
    bochornoso, -a adj
    1. [tiempo] stifling, muggy
    2. [vergonzoso] embarrassing
    * * *
    adj
    1 tiempo sultry
    2 fig
    embarrassing
    * * *
    bochornoso, -sa adj
    1) embarazoso: embarrassing
    2) : hot and muggy

    Spanish-English dictionary > bochornoso

  • 15 ferocidad

    f.
    ferocity, fierceness.
    * * *
    1 ferocity, fierceness
    * * *
    SF ferocity, ferociousness
    * * *
    femenino ferocity, fierceness
    * * *
    Ex. He perceived that his life threatened to be an interminable succession of these mortifying interviews unless he could discover a way or ways to deal with her surly and terrorizing ferocity.
    ----
    * con ferocidad = ferociously.
    * * *
    femenino ferocity, fierceness
    * * *

    Ex: He perceived that his life threatened to be an interminable succession of these mortifying interviews unless he could discover a way or ways to deal with her surly and terrorizing ferocity.

    * con ferocidad = ferociously.

    * * *
    ferocity, fierceness
    * * *

    ferocidad sustantivo femenino ferocity, fierceness
    ' ferocidad' also found in these entries:
    English:
    ferociousness
    - ferocity
    - fierceness
    - fiercely
    - savagery
    * * *
    ferocity, fierceness
    * * *
    f ferocity
    * * *
    : ferocity, fierceness

    Spanish-English dictionary > ferocidad

  • 16 hosco

    adj.
    unfriendly, sullen, grim, rough.
    * * *
    1 (insociable) sullen, surly
    2 (lugar) gloomy, dark
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) [persona] sullen, grim liter
    2) [tiempo, lugar, ambiente] gloomy
    * * *
    - ca adjetivo <persona/semblante> surly, sullen
    * * *
    = sullen, surly [surlier -comp., surliest -sup.], crusty [crustier -comp., crustiest -sup.], morose, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], unfriendly, disagreeable, testy [testier -comp., testiest -sup.].
    Ex. He makes his feelings abundantly clear by sullen silences and glances that indicate complete disgust.
    Ex. He perceived that his life threatened to be an interminable succession of these mortifying interviews unless he could discover a way or ways to deal with her surly and terrorizing ferocity.
    Ex. For this crusty author as well as for that young one having fun being famous is what matters = Tanto para este autor hosco como para aquel autor joven, ser famoso es lo que importa.
    Ex. His limber writing consequentializes the inconsequential, and there is not one morose moment in his work, no hint of sourness.
    Ex. The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex. These messages were examined for 'friendly' features, such as politeness, specificity, constructiveness and helpfulness, and for ' unfriendly' features, like the use of cryptic codes or vocabulary, or language which users might find threatening, domineering, or emotive.
    Ex. Then I came within this disagreeable person's atmosphere, and lo! before I know what's happened I'm involved in an unpleasant altercation.
    Ex. We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.
    * * *
    - ca adjetivo <persona/semblante> surly, sullen
    * * *
    = sullen, surly [surlier -comp., surliest -sup.], crusty [crustier -comp., crustiest -sup.], morose, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], unfriendly, disagreeable, testy [testier -comp., testiest -sup.].

    Ex: He makes his feelings abundantly clear by sullen silences and glances that indicate complete disgust.

    Ex: He perceived that his life threatened to be an interminable succession of these mortifying interviews unless he could discover a way or ways to deal with her surly and terrorizing ferocity.
    Ex: For this crusty author as well as for that young one having fun being famous is what matters = Tanto para este autor hosco como para aquel autor joven, ser famoso es lo que importa.
    Ex: His limber writing consequentializes the inconsequential, and there is not one morose moment in his work, no hint of sourness.
    Ex: The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex: These messages were examined for 'friendly' features, such as politeness, specificity, constructiveness and helpfulness, and for ' unfriendly' features, like the use of cryptic codes or vocabulary, or language which users might find threatening, domineering, or emotive.
    Ex: Then I came within this disagreeable person's atmosphere, and lo! before I know what's happened I'm involved in an unpleasant altercation.
    Ex: We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings, surrounded by freaks, testy over silly details.

    * * *
    hosco -ca
    ‹persona/semblante› surly, sullen; ‹mirada› sullen
    * * *

    hosco
    ◊ -ca adjetivo ‹persona/semblante› surly, sullen

    hosco,-a adjetivo surly, bad-tempered: es una persona hosca, parece siempre enfadado, he's quite unsociable, always in a bad mood

    ' hosco' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    hosca
    English:
    sullen
    - surly
    * * *
    hosco, -a adj
    1. [persona] sullen, gruff
    2. [lugar] grim, gloomy
    * * *
    adj sullen
    * * *
    hosco, -ca adj
    : sullen, gloomy

    Spanish-English dictionary > hosco

  • 17 humillante

    adj.
    humiliating.
    * * *
    1 humiliating, humbling
    * * *
    * * *
    adjetivo humiliating
    * * *
    = humiliating, mortifying, humbling.
    Ex. Nothing should be more humiliating to a borrowing librarian than to have overlooked a needed book in one's own library.
    Ex. He perceived that his life threatened to be an interminable succession of these mortifying interviews unless he could discover a way or ways to deal with her surly and terrorizing ferocity.
    Ex. What started as a bubble a couple of years ago has evolved into a horrific, humbling and scary atmosphere that has grown into a national economic crisis.
    ----
    * de manera humillante = abjectly.
    * * *
    adjetivo humiliating
    * * *
    = humiliating, mortifying, humbling.

    Ex: Nothing should be more humiliating to a borrowing librarian than to have overlooked a needed book in one's own library.

    Ex: He perceived that his life threatened to be an interminable succession of these mortifying interviews unless he could discover a way or ways to deal with her surly and terrorizing ferocity.
    Ex: What started as a bubble a couple of years ago has evolved into a horrific, humbling and scary atmosphere that has grown into a national economic crisis.
    * de manera humillante = abjectly.

    * * *
    humiliating
    * * *

    humillante adjetivo
    humiliating
    humillante adjetivo humiliating, humbling: recibimos un trato humillante, we were treated in a humiliating way
    ' humillante' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    indigna
    - indigno
    English:
    demeaning
    - humiliating
    * * *
    humiliating
    * * *
    adj humiliating
    * * *
    : humiliating

    Spanish-English dictionary > humillante

  • 18 interminable

    adj.
    1 endless, interminable.
    2 unending, endless, everlasting, infinite.
    * * *
    1 endless, interminable
    * * *
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ endless, interminable
    * * *
    adjetivo <serie/discusión/espera> interminable, never-ending; <cola/fila> endless, never-ending
    * * *
    = endless, long-winded, long drawn out, interminable, never-finishing, unending, never-ending.
    Ex. The list of changed headings is almost literally endless if you have the patience to dig them all up.
    Ex. Instructors may sharpen a difference of opinion between two students and also may tactfully cut short long-winded contributions in a debate.
    Ex. The long drawn out dispute over the India Office Library in London is probably the most well-known instance of what is a quite common phenomenon.
    Ex. He perceived that his life threatened to be an interminable succession of these mortifying interviews unless he could discover a way or ways to deal with her surly and terrorizing ferocity.
    Ex. And becoming aware (a never-finishing process of intelligent life) is in itself action.
    Ex. In the mean time, the piles outside the library are multiplying and shapeshifting and, for every 100 books the library SWAT team rescues, 100 are added by the unending delivery trucks.
    Ex. His, he concludes, is the never-ending search for what is new in the world out yonder.
    ----
    * carta interminable = epistle.
    * ser interminable = there + be + no end to.
    * * *
    adjetivo <serie/discusión/espera> interminable, never-ending; <cola/fila> endless, never-ending
    * * *
    = endless, long-winded, long drawn out, interminable, never-finishing, unending, never-ending.

    Ex: The list of changed headings is almost literally endless if you have the patience to dig them all up.

    Ex: Instructors may sharpen a difference of opinion between two students and also may tactfully cut short long-winded contributions in a debate.
    Ex: The long drawn out dispute over the India Office Library in London is probably the most well-known instance of what is a quite common phenomenon.
    Ex: He perceived that his life threatened to be an interminable succession of these mortifying interviews unless he could discover a way or ways to deal with her surly and terrorizing ferocity.
    Ex: And becoming aware (a never-finishing process of intelligent life) is in itself action.
    Ex: In the mean time, the piles outside the library are multiplying and shapeshifting and, for every 100 books the library SWAT team rescues, 100 are added by the unending delivery trucks.
    Ex: His, he concludes, is the never-ending search for what is new in the world out yonder.
    * carta interminable = epistle.
    * ser interminable = there + be + no end to.

    * * *
    ‹serie/discusión› interminable, never-ending, endless; ‹discurso/espera› interminable, never-ending; ‹cola/fila› endless, never-ending
    * * *

    interminable adjetivo ‹serie/discusión/espera› interminable, never-ending;
    ‹cola/fila› endless, never-ending
    interminable adjetivo endless
    ' interminable' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    inacabable
    - llantina
    - lloriqueo
    - hacer
    English:
    drag on
    - endless
    - interminable
    - lengthy
    - never-ending
    - never
    - unending
    * * *
    endless, interminable;
    este viaje se me está haciendo interminable it feels like this journey's never going to end
    * * *
    adj interminable, endless
    * * *
    : interminable, endless
    * * *
    interminable adj endless

    Spanish-English dictionary > interminable

  • 19 malhumorado

    adj.
    bad-humored, cranky, bad-tempered, crabbed.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: malhumorar.
    * * *
    1 bad-tempered
    \
    estar malhumorado,-a to be in a bad mood
    * * *
    (f. - malhumorada)
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ bad-tempered, grumpy
    * * *
    - da adjetivo
    a) [SER] <persona/gesto> bad-tempered
    b) [ESTAR] < persona> in a bad mood
    * * *
    = sullen, surly [surlier -comp., surliest -sup.], crusty [crustier -comp., crustiest -sup.], truculent, peevish, morose, grumpy [grumpier -comp., grumpiest -sup.], ill-humoured [ill-humored, -USA], cranky [crankier -comp., crankiest -sup.], moody [moodier -comp., moodiest -sup.], curmudgeonly, cantankerous, bad-tempered, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], short-tempered, hipped, ornery, mardy [mardier -comp., mardiest -sup.], grouch, in a grouch.
    Ex. He makes his feelings abundantly clear by sullen silences and glances that indicate complete disgust.
    Ex. He perceived that his life threatened to be an interminable succession of these mortifying interviews unless he could discover a way or ways to deal with her surly and terrorizing ferocity.
    Ex. For this crusty author as well as for that young one having fun being famous is what matters = Tanto para este autor hosco como para aquel autor joven, ser famoso es lo que importa.
    Ex. Senior staff members said that these fevers of truculent behavior had manifested themselves only within the past two or three years.
    Ex. In 1912 a group of women library students were accused of lacking a sense of proportion, being peevish and being absorbed in small details.
    Ex. His limber writing consequentializes the inconsequential, and there is not one morose moment in his work, no hint of sourness.
    Ex. That's despite grumpy comments like those of William Hartston who said it was 'surely one of the ugliest words ever to slither its way into our dictionaries'.
    Ex. The presence of this irony in ill-humored short articles from various journalistic sources is described.
    Ex. For example, you already know that living in a windowless room will make you cranky and out of sorts.
    Ex. Moody explorations of unexplained phenomenon can also be found = También se pueden encontrar exploraciones taciturnas de fenómenos inexplicables.
    Ex. Offended by the idea of an addict selling sneakers to kids, he launched into a curmudgeonly rant.
    Ex. To attain this order within the structure of chaos, Eros divided himself into two parts: Eros as amicable, social love and Eros as cantankerous, divisive discord.
    Ex. He was a brave novelist but also bad-tempered, churlish and subject to fits of rage.
    Ex. The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex. A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.
    Ex. His in danger of becoming hipped, a prey to his own doubts and fears, and unable to accomplish anything in life beyond catering to his own morbid fancies.
    Ex. My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
    Ex. They were be very mardy about it, but they accepted it, because if they hadn't their course grade would have suffered.
    Ex. We all have a grouch in our lives and if we wake up on the wrong side of the bed or take our daily mean pill, at the very nicest, we have been described as a ' grouch'.
    Ex. Life is too short to be in a grouch all the time.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo
    a) [SER] <persona/gesto> bad-tempered
    b) [ESTAR] < persona> in a bad mood
    * * *
    = sullen, surly [surlier -comp., surliest -sup.], crusty [crustier -comp., crustiest -sup.], truculent, peevish, morose, grumpy [grumpier -comp., grumpiest -sup.], ill-humoured [ill-humored, -USA], cranky [crankier -comp., crankiest -sup.], moody [moodier -comp., moodiest -sup.], curmudgeonly, cantankerous, bad-tempered, crabby [crabbier -comp., crabbiest, -sup.], short-tempered, hipped, ornery, mardy [mardier -comp., mardiest -sup.], grouch, in a grouch.

    Ex: He makes his feelings abundantly clear by sullen silences and glances that indicate complete disgust.

    Ex: He perceived that his life threatened to be an interminable succession of these mortifying interviews unless he could discover a way or ways to deal with her surly and terrorizing ferocity.
    Ex: For this crusty author as well as for that young one having fun being famous is what matters = Tanto para este autor hosco como para aquel autor joven, ser famoso es lo que importa.
    Ex: Senior staff members said that these fevers of truculent behavior had manifested themselves only within the past two or three years.
    Ex: In 1912 a group of women library students were accused of lacking a sense of proportion, being peevish and being absorbed in small details.
    Ex: His limber writing consequentializes the inconsequential, and there is not one morose moment in his work, no hint of sourness.
    Ex: That's despite grumpy comments like those of William Hartston who said it was 'surely one of the ugliest words ever to slither its way into our dictionaries'.
    Ex: The presence of this irony in ill-humored short articles from various journalistic sources is described.
    Ex: For example, you already know that living in a windowless room will make you cranky and out of sorts.
    Ex: Moody explorations of unexplained phenomenon can also be found = También se pueden encontrar exploraciones taciturnas de fenómenos inexplicables.
    Ex: Offended by the idea of an addict selling sneakers to kids, he launched into a curmudgeonly rant.
    Ex: To attain this order within the structure of chaos, Eros divided himself into two parts: Eros as amicable, social love and Eros as cantankerous, divisive discord.
    Ex: He was a brave novelist but also bad-tempered, churlish and subject to fits of rage.
    Ex: The normally perky and intrepid Cristina is flat out crabby these days.
    Ex: A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.
    Ex: His in danger of becoming hipped, a prey to his own doubts and fears, and unable to accomplish anything in life beyond catering to his own morbid fancies.
    Ex: My mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.
    Ex: They were be very mardy about it, but they accepted it, because if they hadn't their course grade would have suffered.
    Ex: We all have a grouch in our lives and if we wake up on the wrong side of the bed or take our daily mean pill, at the very nicest, we have been described as a ' grouch'.
    Ex: Life is too short to be in a grouch all the time.

    * * *
    1 [ SER] ‹persona/gesto› bad-tempered
    2 [ ESTAR] ‹persona› in a bad mood
    hoy se ha levantado/anda muy malhumorado he has woken up/he is in a very bad mood today
    * * *

    Del verbo malhumorar: ( conjugate malhumorar)

    malhumorado es:

    el participio

    malhumorado
    ◊ -da adjetivo

    a) [SER] ‹persona/gesto› bad-tempered

    b) [ESTAR] ‹ persona› in a bad mood

    malhumorado,-a adjetivo bad-tempered
    ' malhumorado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    malencarada
    - malencarado
    - malhumorada
    - colérico
    - taimado
    English:
    crabby
    - cross
    - crotchety
    - crusty
    - grumpy
    - ill-humoured
    - ill-tempered
    - mean
    - moody
    - morose
    - peevish
    - petulant
    - stroppy
    - bad
    - sulky
    - truculent
    * * *
    malhumorado, -a adj
    1. [de mal carácter] bad-tempered
    2. [enfadado] in a bad mood
    * * *
    adj bad-tempered
    * * *
    malhumorado, -da adj
    : bad-tempered, cross
    * * *
    malhumorado adj bad tempered [comp. worse tempered; superl. worst tempered]

    Spanish-English dictionary > malhumorado

  • 20 poco amable

    adj.
    unfriendly, surly, unkindly, little friendly.
    * * *
    (adj.) = off-putting, surly [surlier -comp., surliest -sup.], crusty [crustier -comp., crustiest -sup.], unkind
    Ex. Some children are prepared to patronize the shop, and use it in quite a different way, when they find the library (however well run) stuffy or off-putting.
    Ex. He perceived that his life threatened to be an interminable succession of these mortifying interviews unless he could discover a way or ways to deal with her surly and terrorizing ferocity.
    Ex. For this crusty author as well as for that young one having fun being famous is what matters = Tanto para este autor hosco como para aquel autor joven, ser famoso es lo que importa.
    Ex. The enumeration at 940.5316: Children and other noncombatants; Pacifists; Enemy sympathizers seems a little unkind, if nothing else.
    * * *
    (adj.) = off-putting, surly [surlier -comp., surliest -sup.], crusty [crustier -comp., crustiest -sup.], unkind

    Ex: Some children are prepared to patronize the shop, and use it in quite a different way, when they find the library (however well run) stuffy or off-putting.

    Ex: He perceived that his life threatened to be an interminable succession of these mortifying interviews unless he could discover a way or ways to deal with her surly and terrorizing ferocity.
    Ex: For this crusty author as well as for that young one having fun being famous is what matters = Tanto para este autor hosco como para aquel autor joven, ser famoso es lo que importa.
    Ex: The enumeration at 940.5316: Children and other noncombatants; Pacifists; Enemy sympathizers seems a little unkind, if nothing else.

    Spanish-English dictionary > poco amable

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