dreadfully
Example Sentences
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But because it had been so dreadfully easy.
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And this was a consummate display, cool and measured with a ruthless edge, even if it came against this dreadfully poor Spurs side.
From BBC
"This is a dreadfully difficult, incredibly sad and utterly tragic case," the judge added.
From BBC
The movie was dreadfully dull, but she didn’t care.
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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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.