dreadfully

Example Sentences

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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 • Feb. 22, 2026

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 The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

Jane and daughter Megan took part in 2019, but she admitted they did "dreadfully", adding: "We lost £155."

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2025

Rarely in this series’ recent history has one club’s stock been so up, while the other’s has been so dreadfully down.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024

On top of this stain there was the torture of knowing that Arthur was kind, simple and upright—of knowing that he was always on the edge of hurting Arthur dreadfully, although he loved him.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White