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Definition of "dreadful" []
- Inspiring dread; terrible. (adjective)
- Extremely unpleasant; distasteful or shocking: dreadful table manners; this dreadful heat. (adjective)
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Use "dreadful" in a sentence
- "It would be dreadful, _dreadful_, if Pegler began seeing ghosts, and turning hysterical."
- ""That I can't stand it, that I can't go on with it, that it is dreadful to me, -- _dreadful! _""
- ""Oh! would this long day, this dreadful, _dreadful_ waiting for -- _what_? ever come to an end?" she asked herself over and over again."
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