Examples of 'dreadful' in a sentence
Meaning of "dreadful"
dreadful (adjective): Causing fear, shock, or distress. This term is used to describe something that is extremely unpleasant, terrible, or alarming
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- Full of something causing dread, whether
- Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming; dangerous, risky.
- Unpleasant, awful, very bad (also used as an intensifier).
- Awesome, awe-inspiring, causing feelings of reverence.
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That dreadful pool with those cracks in it.
Apart from that dreadful airline food.
Dreadful things will happen in our school.
Thunder rumbles and a dreadful storm comes up.
The dreadful calm before the storm.
I fear it sounds more dreadful than it really is.
This dreadful house will soon be empty.
Nobody wants these dreadful trials anymore.
This dreadful monster with a martial rage.
She renovates the dreadful cabin again.
This dreadful situation could continue indefinitely.
You guys have a dreadful image problem.
It is dreadful to derive beauty from animal suffering.
It must have been a dreadful time for you.
I feel a dreadful fire creeping through my veins.
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I am the daughter of the most dreadful person.
Maybe those dreadful magazines do not apply to us.
He blames himself for her dreadful plight.
Seemed like a dreadful way to spend a hangover.
The whole situation is really quite dreadful.
I have a dreadful secret to share with you.
You have been fooled by that dreadful woman.
But those dreadful experiments have to stop.
I just think of what to do to those dreadful beasts.
We are probably the dreadful end of a dreadful day.
Traditional methods of abortion cause dreadful pain.
He feels that his dreadful punishment is just.
Prepare yourself for something very dreadful.
You should a dreadful secret keep itself.
All splendid lovers have dreadful times.
It would be dreadful and would do no credit to us at all.
I must apologise for this dreadful occurrence.
The dreadful crying out of the lustful.
A man in love has dreadful secret thoughts.
The dreadful change came quite suddenly.
Apparently even more dreadful than it sounds.
The failure to respond to those concerns was dreadful.
Psoriasis is very dreadful disease of the skin.
How he first encountered this dreadful pox.
They said it was a dreadful place for a vacation.
My soul died inside on that dreadful day.
Then the dreadful night shall break.
I hope it was not too dreadful for you.
Into the dreadful jaws awaiting him.
A very old lady with dreadful taste.
Something dreadful has happened to your baby.
Condemn the scoundrel to some dreadful oasis.
It would be dreadful never to see you again.
Let us get out of this dreadful place.
They were in a dreadful state on account of the rain.
