dreadful
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He narrowly escaped with his career — and his freedom — from what he came to call The City of the Dreadful Night.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2024
"I am very sorry for the pain and loss inflicted on those families. No words of mine can remove that hurt. Dreadful events cannot be undone."
From BBC • Nov. 7, 2022
This year, she’s having a bit of a television revival: Both Perry Mason and the current season of Penny Dreadful feature McPherson figures.
From Slate • Jun. 28, 2020
The original "Penny Dreadful" provided that in tremendous style while making the most of Eva Green's polished versatility.
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2020
Dreadful as the Dead Marshes had been, and the arid moors of the Noman-lands, more loathsome far was the country that the crawling day now slowly unveiled to his shrinking eyes.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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