dreadfully

Example Sentences

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So music breaks down barriers, as characters keep telling us in a dreadfully blunt script: “This isn’t the mill, this is the choral. And we’re all equal here.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

While not solely to blame for their dreadfully poor domestic campaigns, injuries have certainly hampered both clubs.

From BBC • May 16, 2025

Andrew Moll, the chief inspector of Marine Accidents, said it was a "cruel lesson of how rapidly things can go dreadfully wrong".

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2024

Rarely in this series’ recent history has one club’s stock been so up, while the other’s has been so dreadfully down.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024

Everything was ruined now—and oh, how stupid she had been, how dreadfully stupid.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke