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dreadful

[dred-fuhl] / ˈdrɛd fəl /


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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

The film has a cast that includes Two Doors Down star Joy McAvoy and Matt McClure from American horror show Penny Dreadful.

From BBC • Aug. 9, 2024

It put him face to face daily with Dreadful Normalcy itself.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 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

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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