dreadfully
Example Sentences
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Rebounding from dreadfully depressing injury news to knock out the NBA’s best rebounding team?
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
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
While not solely to blame for their dreadfully poor domestic campaigns, injuries have certainly hampered both clubs.
From BBC ● May 16, 2025
There were little boys, fair, dark, freckled, and all dirty, but their faces were all dreadfully free of major blemishes.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
