How To Use Dreadful In A Sentence

My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
I don't think they play at all fairly," Alice began, in rather a complaining tone, "and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can't hear oneself speak and they don't seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them -- and you've no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there's the arch I've got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground -- and I should have croqueted the Queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
I should have been side by side with you in your existence, having for my only care not to disarrange the cover of my dreadful pit. Les Miserables
It was dreadful, because if people are famished and dying you have to do intensive feeding seven or eight times a day.
It is dreadfully sad to reflect that he grew up in such a short time and in such tragic circumstances. Times, Sunday Times

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But I have to say, I did fast forward through that dreadful speech by the odious brother and through the drippy prayers from the drippy archbish.
As I write this, Neil and Christine Hamilton, as if in dreadful warning to him, are appearing on Hole in the Wall. Edwina Currie, Bobby Davro and Lembit Opik
With the floor of the channel shallowing from 200 metres to 60 metres and at the same time a rock pinnacle, like a finger, rising up from the sea bed to 29 metres from the surface, there is no surprise that the whirlpool was once described as a 'conflux so dreadful that it spurns all description. Found While Looking for Something Else
Before you turn the page, wondering why I've chosen such a dreadful piece of sugary sentimentalism for this week's painting, give Greuze's grieving girl a second glance.
Man might think that he's the most intelligent life form on earth but this is simply a dreadful mistake.
It is also a sovereign remedy for the dreadful _chiragra_ or gout. Japhet in Search of a Father
If it is the slightest bit ‘green’ it has a dreadful desiccative effect on the inside of your mouth.
So I know first-hand that you can take a pic of a person at two different angles and make them look either terrific or dreadful. The Sun
They're saying it was a group of rogue scientists making a dreadful mistake.
It seems they made a dreadful charivari at the village boundary, threw a quantity of spell-bearing objects over the border, a buffalo's skull and other things; then branded a chamur -- what you would call a currier -- on his hinder parts and drove him and a number of pigs over into Jelbo's village. Under the Deodars
I do feel dreadfully sad, Marilla. Anne of Green Gables
What tipped the balance against that was my continuing dreadful performance in the classroom.
But we do respect her bravery in standing up against a dreadful regime.
Dreadful!" moaned Sister Ann. "Adnah goes about sighing all the day, and looks over-long in the mirror, and takes unseemly pains with her dressing, and does up her hair with flowers, and has feverishly pink cheeks, and likes to sit in a corner and brood, and takes long walks by herself, and especially, _especially_, seems fond of moonlight! The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.)
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The game was played in dreadful conditions with driving rain and howling winds ruining the contest.
It made me feel dreadfully insignificant. Anne of Green Gables
Dawn receives some dreadful news on her big day. The Sun
But the radio also brought dreadful news. Times, Sunday Times
The part I don't get is why the really dreadful singers set themselves up for scorn and mockery - and they have to know that's what they're in for.
Yet in spite of this dreadful tenue he greeted me without embarrassment and indeed with a kind of artless pleasure. Ruggles of Red Gap
The misconceived refusal to give Charlie Adam a penalty and send off Philippe Senderos on the hour, a spoilsport decision to disallow a goal for Luis Suárez midway through the second half and a red card for the young midfielder Jay Spearing a few minutes later prefaced a crescendo of Fulham attacking which ended with a dreadful Pepe Reina error and a decisive tap-in for Clint Dempsey. Andy Carroll's ineffectiveness adds to Liverpool frustration at Fulham | Richard Williams
Not for him the eye-catching drama of a dreadful miss and mistimed tackle to be redeemed by brilliance. Times, Sunday Times
Who actually watches these dreadful films and thinks that they're masterpieces of modern cinema?
They were onto the danger of losing her to the streets or to some dreadful accident.
The hotel food was dreadful, so for three days our iron rations were fruit, cheese and bread.
The food was dreadful, salty and reheated, which is something we haven't experienced even in the smallest most remote village. TravelPod.com Recent Updates
If there is a God I hope that he takes me first then I can go with a contented mind knowing that she did not suffer this dreadful disease any longer.
John himself was diagnosed with cancer some years ago and knows what a dreadful experience it can be.
We all felt absolutely dreadful for him. The Sun
On this later-day Earth, drowsing through the late afternoon of its existence, only a few families of the old orders of hymenoptera and diptera survived in mutated form: most dreadful of these were the tigerflies. HOTHOUSE
Anna's arm hurt dreadfully, worse than when she'd fallen off the top of the climbing frame at the nursery.
To and fro she went, in noiseless ministry, as the long, dreadful days wore away, with a quiet smile on her lips, and in her dark, sorrowful eyes the rapt look of a pictured saint in some dim cathedral niche. Further Chronicles of Avonlea
A dreadful day it was for young Dobbin when one of the youngsters of the school, having run into the town upon a poaching excursion for hardbake and polonies, espied the cart of Dobbin & Rudge, Grocers and Oilmen, Thames Street, London, at the Doctor’s door, discharging a cargo of the wares in which the firm dealt. Vanity Fair
Here is a dreadful word I came across in a British theological journal in 1979: euthanatizing. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 1
The Exiles battled hard on a dreadful pitch that looked more like a beach. The Sun
The pastiness combined with all of her wrinkles, and it made her look absolutely dreadful, as though she was an anemic dragged from the grave.
Madeline was a lush and a wine snob, a vegetarian, and a dreadful cook (once she had poached a thick hunk of cod to just that degree of lukewarmness that had reanimated the little white worms inside).
If the ultimatum is not at once accepted we may look for that dreadful catastrophe, a sex war. Elections Past
Wherefore do thou write him a letter and chide him angrily and spare him no manner of reproof, but threaten him with dreadful threats and menace him with death and say to him, ‘Whence hast thou knowledge of me, that thou durst write me, O dog of a merchant, O thou who trudgest far and wide all thy days in wilds and wolds for the sake of gaining a dirham or a dinar? The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
It features dreadfully long and boring ‘action’ sequences comprised mostly of repeating footage of men firing pistols in the dark.
It has been widely denounced as a dreadful, expensive mistake, the very nadir of reality television… all of which is true, but what's your point?
Kaffir blankets haunted the refuse-heaps, and fought with gaunt dogs for picked bones and empty meat-tins, and were found dead not unseldom, after full meals of strange and dreadful things. The Dop Doctor
On the contrary, it would have seemed an admission that our spheres and years divided us and that we were making a dreadful mistake.
‘Nevertheless it was a serious attack, with dreadful injuries and that of course is something he regrets immensely,’ she said.
Poor thing! You look absolutely dreadful!
This heat seems to have had a dreadfully enervating effect on everyone.
That would be a great pity, because they are all lovely people and we shall miss them dreadfully.
-- "If they don't start soon I'll be taking the neuralgy dreadful. The Manxman A Novel - 1895
It was yet another dreadful defensive lapse by Palace. The Sun
Death is, as one of the ancients observes, [Greek: to ton phoberon phoberotaton], _of dreadful things the most dreadful_: an evil, beyond which nothing can be threatened by sublunary power, or feared from human enmity or vengeance. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II
I love my job, relish the operational role and will no doubt miss it dreadfully.
He was carrying on dreadful, shaking at the gaite, and calling out it was 'is The Hill of Dreams
What went so dreadfully wrong? The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
She had the most dreadful dark circles under her eyes.
But he was no match for this dreadful black bulk that descended upon him with the resistlessness of doom. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life
The result must be dreadful where fervour will poetize without the aidful restraints of art and modesty. England's Antiphon
Mistakes, some of them dreadful, were certainly made.
Normal childhood, normal family, nothing dreadful in the woodshed there. LOST CHILDREN
It is a dreadful initiative in policy terms, but electorally appears to have been successful in negativing any northern suburb's fears about Labor being soft on crime.
Thus the dreadful smogs of pre-1952 have been eliminated and the emission of noxious and offensive gases limited.
There is a social dimension to contextualism that we have ignored with dreadful results.
Then begins anew the old strife, but under conditions far more dreadful, for though it be founded on atomic consciousness, the central consciousness of the heterogeneous aggregation of atoms becomes immeasurably more sentient and susceptible with every step it takes from homogenesis. The Crack of Doom
The unprecedented number of casualties and the dreadful wounds caused by high-explosive shells seriously stretched the medical services. Times, Sunday Times
We can feel dreadful for them without providing commentary at the horrible spectacle of it all. The Sun
Cosmographer, to finde himselfe Cosmopolites, a citizen and member of the whole and onely one mysticall citie vniuersall, and so consequently to meditate of the Cosmopoliticall gouernment thereof, vnder the King almightie, passing on very swiftly toward the most dreadfull and most comfortable terme prefixed. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01
Who dareth name the fiend?" croaked an awful voice, whereat Black Lewin halted, gaped and stood a-tremble, while beneath steel cap and bascinet all men's hair stirred and rose with horror; for before them was a ghastly shape, a shape that crouched in the gloom with dreadful face aflame with smouldering green fire. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
I'm a dreadful ` 80s kind of dag, a child of that era," she said. The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines
He was still weak and shaky, but the dreadful enervation and nausea had disappeared.
The slime - a thick, mucus-like substance that smelled positively dreadful - was dribbling down the steps in a slow and steady ooze.
It is absolutely dreadful that they are reducing spending on this scheme. Times, Sunday Times
The dreadful suffering endured by those addicted to the drugs, the ruin of lives which should be useful, do not constitute the whole of the evil, for the ills spread to their families.
Dreadful episodes like these have helped to boost Nader's challenge.
As he traversed the globe I learnt to switch my mind off to all the dreadful disasters he may encounter. Times, Sunday Times
Other research demonstrated that should Canterbury Cathedral collapse in some dreadful calamity, it would actually pay the city to rebuild it.
The event is just dreadful and yet the way it's recorded is great art and it leads us into a kind of paradox.
I question whether all the officers of the royal navy can bring together, from all their journals, a collection of so many wonderful escapes as this man has known upon the Thames, on which he has been a thousand and a thousand times on the point of perishing, sometimes by the terrours of foolish women in the same boat, sometimes by his own acknowledged imprudence in passing the river in the dark, and sometimes by shooting the bridge under which he has rencountered mountainous waves, and dreadful cataracts. The Rambler, sections 55-112 (1750-1751); from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes, Vol. IV
So I know first-hand that you can take a pic of a person at two different angles and make them look either terrific or dreadful. The Sun
I know it has been so long since I wrote, and I am so dreadfully sorry.
a second; but, by instructing them in the laws of military discipline with the same care and exactness a priest would use in teaching ceremonies and dreadful mysteries, and by severity to such as transgressed and contemned those laws, he maintained his country in its former greatness, esteeming victory over enemies itself but as an accessory to the proper training and disciplining of the citizens. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Sometimes things go dreadfully wrong but then you can get some wonderful surprises. The Sun
Yes, there is the odd dodgy track and occasional dreadful lyric, but on the whole this album is far better than many would of dreamed possible.
Does everyone remember the flap last year about Robert Novak saying that the Clinton campaign had some deep dreadful oppo research on Obama, and how Obama challenged them to produce it or "retract"? Obama To Give Major Speech On Race, Wright
Is it such a dreadful faux pas? Times, Sunday Times
She says people talked about it something dreadful. Anne of Green Gables
Now I thought about Ed again --- but then he's always on my mind --- with a dreadful, knotting sensation inside. RESCUING ROSE
Now a dreadful time to turn their remains over to a sealed vault. Christianity Today
Campbell was a dreadful choice because his controversial character had soured media relations before he'd even opened his mouth.
The refugee camps, however dreadful, were a way station to their dream.
As Sir Benjamin told Parliament, this was gender inequality, for men convicted of the same offenses were no longer subject to drawing and quartering and ‘women should not receive a more dreadful punishment than men’.
They have been stuttering along, playing dreadfully away from home and struggling to get the best out of their superstars. The Sun
There's no great dearth of terrines, no dreadful famine of chicken liver parfait and, as far as I'm aware, the meatpaste market still thrives in its own quiet way, but where oh where are the great slablike pâtés of my youth? How to make pâté
It's a truly grotesquely dreadful programme.
There is a dreadful second rater in The House of Lords called baroness Scotland: hope she gets the Order of The Boot along with Amos Who Will Follow John Reid Out of the Cabinet?
A dreadful film, but it'll send you to bed with a smirk on your face. The Sun
She was wearing a dreadful pink flouncy skirt.
IMHO, Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" supplanted "MacArthur Park" as the most dreadful pop song ever. Hillary's Campaign Song Originally Written For...Air Canada Ad
The slime - a thick, mucus-like substance that smelled positively dreadful - was dribbling down the steps in a slow and steady ooze.
By the time the tsunami had travelled 3,500 miles and was nearing the coast of east Africa, news of the dreadful toll in Asia had preceded it.
No one doubts both parents have both suffered dreadfully. The Sun
Flattered by Gabriel's dreadful mistake, she accepted his beer.
It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in prison! The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
He will persist in riding that dreadful bicycle.
But Mr Beaumont believes the city owes Hudson a public apology and a more salubrious memorial than the ‘dreadful’ street which bears his name.
To observe that something precious has been lost, covered over, and denied is regarded as dreadfully unsophisticated.
Did I not martyrize myself into a human mule by descending to the bottom of a dreadful pit (suffering mortal terror all the time, lest it should cave in upon me), actuated by a virtuous desire to see with my own two eyes the process of underground mining, thus enabling myself to be stupidly correct in all my statements thereupon? The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
Dark marks were scored across her muzzle in dreadful lines that were a reminder of the scars that distorted my own face and she moved slowly, painfully.
The news report was so dreadful that I just had to switch it off.
What a dreadful waste of money. The Sun
I've got a terrible codeine hangover and I feel dreadful.
I was dreadfully shocked at the burning of the two Jews, and the honest Biscayan who married his godmother; but how great was my surprise, my consternation, and concern, when I beheld a figure so like Pangloss, dressed in a sanbenito and mitre! Candide
Food prices are a risk, in the light of the dreadful summer and reports of very poor grain harvests in Britain. Times, Sunday Times
A jury of women had found on her person a wart, which was pronounced to be unquestionably a "devil's teat," and her neighbors remembered that many hens had died, animals become lame, and carts upset by her dreadful "devilism. History of the United States, Volume 1 (of 6)
The cause and symptom of this is failure to tell - and face - the dreadful truth: this failure pervades many of the news reports and much of the commentary we read, and reinforces the blue-sky world that many want to exist.
They upset one woman because they had made her fear a dreadful death through drowning.
And I think he spotted what a lot of -- a lot of other people have now begun to spot in our prime minister, Mr. Blair, that dreadful phoniness, which is one of the very important developments of modern politics, an -- an emp ... The Abolition of Britain: From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana
I nearly died laughing, while my mother tried to convince me it would not be dreadful.
This lady was one of those modern inventions known as a frisky matron, and said and did all manner of dreadful things, which people winked at because -- she was Mrs Meddlechip, and eccentric. Madame Midas
She was wearing a dreadful pink flouncy skirt.
We see people that have committed these dreadful crimes are coming out and continuing along a similar pattern. The Sun
It was simply not dense enough to obscure completely a truly dreadful match. Times, Sunday Times
This was a dreadful crime and a severe sentence is necessary.
However, this dreadful purpose was prevented, partly by the interposition of his wife, whose aim was not the death but immurement of his daughter, and partly by the tears and supplication of the young gentlewoman herself, who protested, that, although the ceremony of the church had not been performed, she was contracted to Fathom by the most solemn vows, to witness which he invoked all the saints in heaven. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
Dreadfully did my heart then misgive me: I was ready to faint. Clarissa Harlowe
That was undoubtedly the worst period of my life, made even more dreadful by a growing fear that it would never end, and my life would be ruined.
Talking of lunch, NPI once bought me a dreadful lunch at an awful restaurant.
In an editorial last month, Ross Douthat argued convincingly that John Paul was a great man, but he was also "a weak administrator, a poor delegator, and sometimes a dreadful judge of character. By Punishing Legionaries of Christ Leader, Pope Benedict Finally Grabs Some Good PR
It was particularly shocking that this dreadful language was directed at a group that included members of the Cubs, Brownies and Beavers.
GOOOOODDDDD DAAAAMMMM ITS WARM TODAY FELLOW DEFENDERS OF THE REALM!!!!!! however i am now nursing a nice lager shandy (off duty of course, im not in CID) and sat in the shade. meanwhile up north today i had to stifle mirth (not very succesfully) as we placed a ‘regular service user’ into a cell. as i left him and came home i hear he was still kicking off about how stifling his cell is … … .. clearly the systems failed him and i feel absolutely dreadful for him … … …. no honestly i do … … … … on July 1, 2009 at 7: 42 pm | Reply Olivers Army Police Body Armour Heatwave Shock! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Emma will be dreadfully missed and all the school hold her family in their thoughts and prayers during this dreadful time.
This period has become infamous for its dreadful architecture, its love of the car and its brutal town planning. Times, Sunday Times
A three-disc Criterion release includes Mr. Gilliam's 142-minute version, plus Universal's dreadful 94-minute recut version with a happy ending that the studio released unsuccessfully. See Jane Blossom: An Enthralling 'Eyre'
At first the family thought the fire must have been some dreadful accident.
She's making a dreadful mess of things.
Its reassuring to find oneself almost agreeing with Melanie again. .but: laughable as it is for this dreadful new labour hack to pretend that paying to be tied up and flogged is only depraved if you wear the wrong costume; isnt the public exposure of depravity its own kind of lechery (to paraphrase Dr Johnson)? On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
She played a woman physically allergic to shirts with sleeves, but terminally addicted to acid shades of lippie that clashed dreadfully with her chosen hair dye.
I feel suitably dreadful today, and have only just lolled out of bed.
This lady was one of those modern inventions known as a frisky matron, and said and did all manner of dreadful things, which people winked at because — she was Mrs Meddlechip, and eccentric. Madame Midas
To be honest, her singing was quite dreadful.
One evening, plumb tuckered out – it had been a dreadful hard hot day, and the bread wouldn't raise and the churning had gone wrong, and I was all irritated and jerky – well, that evening I made mention to dad of this wanting to run of mine. The Night-Born
It was yet another dreadful defensive lapse by Palace. The Sun
Braidie is left with the question of what to do as a by-stander, as a member of the in-crowd, when she has to come to terms with the dark realities of what her friends are doing and the dreadful results their actions could yield.
She had a dreadful row with her parents and left home.
The working conditions in the factory are dreadful.
` People got so peery, 'complained the great man, ` that ingenious men were put to dreadful shifts.' A Book of Scoundrels
This is something that has been the cause of much vile verse in bad poets, of such gruesome twaddle as Senator Vest's dreadful outbark. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
'To find other people's unposted letters in an old pocket; to be seen looking at oneself in a street-mirror, or overhead talking of the Ideal to a duchess; to refuse Nuns who come to the door to ask for subscriptions, or to be lent by a beautiful new acquaintance a book she has written full of mystical slipslop, or dreadful musings in an old-world garden --' More Trivia
I accept at last the dreadful words of the divorce decree and agree to be as ‘one dead’ to you and the bairns.
Boris, who I love dearly, is furious about the rampant double standards of those dreadful Tabloid Newspapers. Archive 2007-02-18
His existence since that dreadful event has involved the pathetic search for an alternative fatherland.
It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in prison! The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
These holier-than-thou guardians of free speech are practically creaming with self-righteous glee as they publicly lynch this young woman for saying something dreadfully stupid that she undoubtedly deeply regrets. The Volokh Conspiracy » Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail
The area was in a dreadful mess. Broken Lives
He felt a dreadful fear grip him as he walked hurriedly towards his son
She had ‘dreadful burns undoubtedly caused by scalding water’, he said.
Then they told him that somewhere, a long way off, there dwelt three dreadful sisters, monstrous ogrish women, with golden wings and claws of brass, and with serpents growing on their heads instead of hair. The Blue Fairy Book
The tendency of great things to be accomplished in dreadful spaces should give architects and decorators pause.
The Whites were dreadful and utterly spineless during a second-half collapse. The Sun
The dreadful tale of the Kalmuck Tartars, in 1770, fleeing from their enemies, the Russians, over the desolate steppes of Asia in mid-winter; starting out six hundred thousand strong, men, women, and children, with their flocks and herds, and reaching the confines of History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
In actuality it came from the name of a bird - the Willow inker - that had a dreadfully loud caw, not to mention a terrible unaccommodating personality, and happened to live in a willow tree.
But there is a dreadful paradox in all the horse sports, and jump racing in particular. Times, Sunday Times
He does not control the source of the danger, but he has control of the means to avert a dreadful accident.
But every genre has its talentless, dreadful army of handless practitioners, and yet somehow, unlike poor old horror, they all still manage to get away with not having their finest sons and daughters tarred with the brush of the hopeless.
Surely honesty, sobriety, and steadiness must have grown dreadfully scarce qualities, that one puts up with such a cook; especially as her cooking is as careless as the rest of her doings. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
After returning from Ireland and trying to forget about my dreadful mistake I found another person to throw my unrequited passion at.
He adduces several wartime and postwar writers who veer away from addressing the German civilians' dreadful suffering.
“You are attached to that picture for the sake of the likeness, no doubt, mesdames, for the drawing is dreadful?” he said, looking at Adelaide. The Purse
This was a dreadful crime and a severe sentence is necessary.
They told us the dreadful news.
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Mercury, iodine and all other alteratives, by suppression of external elimination, create internal chronic diseases of the most dreadful types, such as locomotor ataxy, paresis, etc. Nature Cure
Any such list which includes SHANE and the unspectacular film THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING ... (unless the novel was dreadful) and thinks that Du Maurier's novelet "The Birds" was a novel ... clearly doesn't know enough to include RED ALERT/DR. Movies Better than the Books They're Based On?
If some fall victim to a dreadful lurgy, however, the show will go on. Times, Sunday Times
Wordsworth likes to take words from a context that is dreadful and render them benign.
But you really do yearn for some of those dreadful, impossible-to-solve, utterly boring, handicaps to get the old heave-ho.
dreadful manners
A blush of light crimson I guess you all spotted the dreadful howler in this column last week. Times, Sunday Times
Like the hoary old cliché, ‘Oh, I only watch the documentaries on TV not those dreadful soaps!’
A dreadful day it was for young Dobbin when one of the youngsters of the school, having run into the town upon a poaching excursion for hardbake and polonies, espied the cart of Dobbin & Rudge, Grocers and Oilmen, Thames Street, London, at the Doctors door, discharging a cargo of the wares in which the firm dealt. V. Dobbin of Ours
My aunt indulges the children dreadfully.
Capablanca was wrapped in a mantle of invincibility; he had the aura, and even the best players in the world had a dreadful feeling of inferiority and inadequacy when they sat before him. Archive 2008-01-01
I am dreadfully sorry for what happened in the boat today.
So he gave us this dreadful two-hour tour of his machine shop explaining what every lug nut was for, and what he had invented.
These people have been locked up with a load of hardcore criminals for who knows how long because someone made a dreadful mistake.
I'm in a dreadful / tearing rush ( ie hurry ) so I can't stop.
That I can't stand it, that I can't go on with it, that it is dreadful to me, -- _dreadful! _ The Lovely Lady
I won't tell what horrors I have heard, what frightful music, what dreadful performances and insipid music making.
There was one famous incident where he was asked for a particular type of doll and he had dreadful trouble sourcing it.
It would have been no more than they deserved as they showed true grit after the dreadful start and the concession of those two early goals.
Dundee should have gone on to win handsomely, but for two truly dreadful misses.
Then he turned and went slowly up the stair, and came out on to the open face of that Isle, and he saw that it was waste indeed, and dreadful: a wilderness of black sand and stones and ice-borne rocks, with here and there a little grass growing in the hollows, and here and there a dreary mire where the white-tufted rushes shook in the wind, and here and there stretches of moss blended with red-blossomed sengreen; and otherwhere nought but the wind-bitten creeping willow clinging to the black sand, with a white bleached stick and a leaf or two, and again a stick and a leaf. The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men
'Scapes not the dreadful sword lunge of her look * Arabian nights. English
They were dreadfully frightened, but at last one laid down his assagai and by degrees in about an hour approached my Kafir. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
After weeks of dreadful anticipation, a rebel militia advances against government forces.
It'll seem dreadfully confusing at first in fact, but it works very well in the end and effectively squeezes the full commands of a mouse and keyboard into an N64 joypad with style.

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