dreadful

Example Sentences

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From financial mismanagement to scandals, awful decision-making to just dreadful form - across the footballing globe, big clubs do go down.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

It would be possible to convey the essence of “The Life and Death of Peter Sellers,” by Roger Lewis, in a single sentence: Peter Sellers was a dreadful human being.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

By highlighting some of this procedural chicanery, Kagan’s dissent in Mirabelli laid bare, in remarkably blunt fashion, the tip of a dreadful iceberg.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026

The dreadful conditions in Crans Montana and two other crashes led to the race being stopped after just six competitors attempted to find their way down the piste.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026

They seemed like people Farmer had seen in waiting rooms in the dreadful public clinics he’d visited throughout the country.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French