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UK
/dɹˈɛdfəli/
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[ US /ˈdɹɛdfəɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈdɹɛdfəɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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of a dreadful kind
there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning -
in a dreadful manner
as he looks at the mess he has left behind he must wonder how the Brits so often managed to succeed in the kind of situation where he has so dismally failed
How To Use dreadfully In A Sentence
- 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
- It is dreadfully sad to reflect that he grew up in such a short time and in such tragic circumstances. Times, Sunday Times
- I do feel dreadfully sad, Marilla. Anne of Green Gables
- It made me feel dreadfully insignificant. Anne of Green Gables
- Anna's arm hurt dreadfully, worse than when she'd fallen off the top of the climbing frame at the nursery.
- It features dreadfully long and boring ‘action’ sequences comprised mostly of repeating footage of men firing pistols in the dark.
- 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.
- I love my job, relish the operational role and will no doubt miss it dreadfully.
- What went so dreadfully wrong? The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
