"terrible background" is an acceptable phrase in written English.
You could use it in a sentence such as, "Given his terrible background, it's amazing he was able to turn his life around."
But Mr. Riordan said it remained to be seen how voters would react to the emerging caricature of "the mysterious, terrible background" involving Mr. Giuliani's personal life, which includes his very public divorce from Donna Hanover and subsequent marriage to Judith Nathan.
If you can ignore the terrible, terrible background music, you'll see a game that looks a hell of a lot like Halo 2. Maybe it's just a really early build (or a fake), but I'm not really all that impressed.
"[It's about] showing people that have got terrible backgrounds themselves of care and abuse, who have had no love and no proper parenting themselves.
I open up a browser and it really is quite unbelievably bad: the font is terrible, the background amateurish, the layout a joke.
"I don't necessarily believe that the employment of private contractors is a problem, we are talking about the employment of private contractors with sketchy or terrible humanitarian background or track records," Dr. David Borys told me in an interview.
People with cochlear implants have "a terrible time" with background noise, Dr. Oxenham said.
"Most kids in foster care are there because they have had something terrible happen in their background.
Smaller sensors, like the ones in all small, inexpensive cameras, may be terrible at blurring the background, but they're great at keeping everything in focus.
The most striking thing I've learned about contemporary Russian culture from these videos -- aside from the fact that no one in Russia is capable of making a trip to the store without crashing spectacularly -- is that the pop music that is always, always playing in the background is terrible.
And parents of every ages, from any background, can do terrible (or very good) things.
She fills in the deeper background of the terrible conflict with India over Kashmir.
