Usage examples of "affreux" in French with translation to English

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Où as-tu dégoté cet affreux clébard ? Where did you find this awful dog?
Je suis tellement occupé ces jours-ci, c'est affreux. I'm so busy these days it's awful.
Quand j'essaie de marcher, j'ai une douleur affreuse ici. When I try to walk, I get an awful pain here.
J'ai une affreuse douleur. I have a terrible pain.
L'architecture dans cette partie de la ville est affreuse. The architecture in this part of the city is ugly.
Il a tendance à dire des choses affreuses et à exagérer ses griefs. He is apt to say atrocious things and to exaggerate his grievances.
L'or même à la laideur donne un teint de beauté : mais tout devient affreux avec la pauvreté. Gold gives an air of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful.
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