dreadfully
Example Sentences
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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
“When you get such interesting and amusing film roles, it doesn’t seem dreadfully exciting to be in the 257th revival of ‘The Rivals,’” she said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025
"This is plainly a dreadfully sad case," he said.
From BBC • Sep. 30, 2024
United started dreadfully and went into a rapid decline, somehow surviving until half-time as Spurs carved them open on countless occasions but could not add a second.
From BBC • Sep. 29, 2024
Even if it was the most corrupt and ostentatious court in Erilea, it sounded dreadfully romantic.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
