Examples of 'dreadfully' in a sentence

Meaning of "dreadfully"

Dreadfully is an adverb used to emphasize the negative aspect of something, often describing something extremely unpleasant or causing great fear
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  • In a dreadful manner.
  • Exceptionally, eminently, very much.

How to use "dreadfully" in a sentence

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He suffered dreadfully calling for your mother.
But those beggars are really dreadfully fertile.
I am getting dreadfully bored of all this vomiting.
I knew it could not be anything dreadfully serious.
They are dreadfully fond of beheading people here.
He must have had a dreadfully dull time.
How dreadfully dull for your parents.
I have forgotten how dreadfully witty you are.
I am dreadfully sorry about what happened today.
That business looks dreadfully like marriage.
I am dreadfully afraid my grandfather had a slight stroke.
That there was something dreadfully wrong somewhere.
It is dreadfully embarrassing for reasons that are unclear to me.
I know that this is dreadfully short notice.
Dreadfully painful experience for any infant.

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They have the dreadfully murderous weapons.
She always feels these things so dreadfully.
We have all been dreadfully worried about you.
Animals are far too beautiful to be treated so dreadfully.
I would be dreadfully disappointed if you can not.
I am afraid the garden is dreadfully run back.
I am most dreadfully sorry about all that.
I only meant the path is dreadfully bumpy.
Because it is so dreadfully important to me to have that control.
Her friends and family were dreadfully worried.
She suffers dreadfully on a long carriage journey.
There was talk of a young girl dreadfully wronged.
The post is dreadfully inconsistent out here.
You will miss her visit dreadfully.
There is something dreadfully wrong with education.
Dreadfully sorry to keep you waiting.
And television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.
The treatment made people dreadfully ill.
Tuesdays are dreadfully far from the weekend.
You must miss him dreadfully.
They are dreadfully uncomfortable for your cat.
Poor people find that dreadfully gauche.
They were a dreadfully boring couple until now.
I felt humiliated and defeated and so dreadfully ashamed.
I have been dreadfully worried about him.
Dreadfully sorry for in her heart.
But they were guilty of dreadfully tormenting men.
I am dreadfully sorry we only seem to have two rights.
Women have suffered dreadfully in the past.
What a dreadfully big word for a college dropout.
We do not propose to put in dreadfully revolutionary words.
I am dreadfully late for another appointment.
But it can cause dreadfully bad trips.
I am dreadfully sorry for the disruption.
You must have been dreadfully afraid.

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