Thesaurus / dreadful
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
I guess the reason it needs a lot of chocolate is the actual cookie is rather dreadful.
WHO MAKES THE BEST CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE? WE TASTED 14 TOP BRANDS AND RANKED THEM.MATT BROOKSDECEMBER 4, 2020WASHINGTON POST
As a glasses-noob suffering from the dreadful fog myself, I turned to the internet for answers.
THE BEST WAYS TO STOP A MASK FROM FOGGING UP YOUR GLASSES, RANKEDSANDRA GUTIERREZ G.NOVEMBER 18, 2020POPULAR SCIENCE
She is a threat to its isolation, its purity, and its unknowable and dreadful secrets.
GOTHIC NOVELS ARE OBSESSED WITH BORDERS. MEXICAN GOTHIC TAKES FULL ADVANTAGE.CONSTANCE GRADYOCTOBER 16, 2020VOX
If there were to be any sort of silver lining to dreadful circumstances, this was it.
HAMMERLY ISN’T READY TO GIVE UP ON THEATERPATRICK FOLLIARDAUGUST 20, 2020WASHINGTON BLADE
Toronto’s offense checks in just outside the top 10 for the full season, and it’s been dreadful during the restart.
THE RAPTORS’ DEFENSE IS ALMOST NEVER THE SAME, BUT IT’S ALWAYS REALLY GOODJARED DUBINAUGUST 17, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
I learned later that he had implored the Superior on his knees not to lay this dreadful command upon him, but all in vain.
THE MONK AND THE HANGMAN'S DAUGHTERADOLPHE DANZIGER DE CASTRO AND AMBROSE BIERCE
I am sure, from that poor woman's dreadful death, that something terrible has occurred, perhaps to Lady Rookwood.
ROOKWOODWILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH
I am glad at least that I have removed that dreadful woman out of your path, said Lady Frances.
A VERY NAUGHTY GIRLL. T. MEADE
It would no doubt be a dreadful risk, and before she went to sleep again she had almost decided to give up the plan altogether.
PENELOPE AND THE OTHERSAMY WALTON
Not for a moment did she appear to realize the dreadful mistake she had made.
A LOVER IN HOMESPUNF. CLIFFORD SMITH
WORDS RELATED TO DREADFUL
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- criminal
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- flagitious
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- infamous
- infernal
- iniquitous
- miscreant
- monstrous
- odious
- opprobrious
- outrageous
- perverse
- putrid
- rank
- rotten
- shameful
- treacherous
- vicious
- vile
- villainous
- wicked
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.