dreadfulness

Example Sentences

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Yet the performance is mostly one of heartbreaking reserve; her occasional voiceover comes in short, spare declarations from Carol’s diary on the latest dreadfulness to afflict the town.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

They stuck with him through two months of dreadfulness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2019

No other film genre boasts such an unimpeachable reputation for dreadfulness as the video game adaptation.

From The Guardian • Mar. 29, 2018

Other centerpieces arrived to the Cubs courtesy of the high draft picks that the team earned through its years of calculated dreadfulness.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 15, 2016

“And now I hear in your voice that you have it too. I feel wings over this house. I feel a dreadfulness coming.”

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck