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disastrously |
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Translations disastrously [dɪˈzɑːstrəslɪ] ADV 1. (= catastrophically) → desastrosamente the race started disastrously for Smith → la carrera tuvo un comienzo desastroso para Smith to go disastrously wrong → salir terriblemente mal 2. (= atrociously) → pésimamente we performed disastrously → actuamos pésimamente, tuvimos una actuación horrorosa disastrously [dɪˈzɑːstrəsli dɪˈzæstrəsli] adv (= terribly) [high, low, late] → terriblement The vegetable harvest is disastrously behind schedule BUT Le retard dans la récolte des légumes est désastreux. disastrously timed → malencontreux/euse to go disastrously wrong → tourner au désastre disastrously adv → katastrophal; it all went disastrously wrong → es was eine Katastrophe; we performed disastrously → unsere Leistung war katastrophal (schlecht); they fared disastrously in the elections → sie schnitten bei den Wahlen katastrophal schlecht ab disastrously [dɪˈzɑːstrəslɪ] adv → disastrosamente disastrously [dɪˈzɑːstrəslɪ] adv → disastrosamente How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But though I was no less convinced than Stroeve that the connection between Strickland and Blanche would end disastrously, I did not expect the issue to take the tragic form it did. Once a writer friend of mine had owned the ranch; but he, too, had become a revolutionist, though more disastrously than I, for he was already dead and gone, and none knew where nor how. The respectable Apollyon was now putting on the steam at a prodigious rate, anxious, perhaps, to get rid of the unpleasant reminiscences connected with the spot where he had so disastrously encountered Christian. |
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