Jane Goldman

I really enjoy the company of my kids... I'm not one of those people who goes 'Yeah, my kids are my mates', that's a dreadful kind of mother, but I'm fortunate that there are times that they do want me around, and I feel lucky that they let me into their world.

English Writer

Gerald Vizenor

The idea of victimage is a dreadful thing, a product of a safe middle-class perspective. What people who are not safe develop is a tragic wisdom, a wisdom that embraces contradiction and seeks a sense of balance rather than going to extremes.

American Writer

Jonathan Dimbleby

I have a great deal of joy in my life, and I'm very fortunate. That combination makes you aware of just how wonderful life can be on the one hand and how dreadful it can be for people on the other. You can't be happy in isolation.

British Writer

James Baldwin

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

American Novelist

June Whitfield

I've taken a personal trainer once a week because I'm dreadful. I don't exercise; I don't walk about an awful lot because my feet hurt, so I thought it was a good idea. It makes you move bits you otherwise might not.

English Actress

Louisa May Alcott

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

Horatio Nelson

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

British Admiral

Friedrich Schiller

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

German Dramatist

Jules Renard

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

French Dramatist

Sophocles

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

Greek Poet

Use 'dreadful' to describe something extremely unpleasant, shocking, or frightening.

Conveys Horror

'Dreadful' suggests a very strong negative emotion, more than just 'bad' or 'unpleasant'.

Strong Emotion

'Dreadful' is often used to emphasize the seriousness of a situation or event.

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Use 'dreadful' when something fails to meet expectations of quality or performance.

Describes Quality

By calling something 'dreadful', you suggest it needs significant improvement.

Suggests Improvement

'Dreadful' often goes beyond disillusionment to convey deep dissatisfaction.

Beyond Disappointment

 It was in front of the whole class and I felt dreadful. But it's what I wanted, and as soon as I left school, I applied to the fire service and I was accepted. You know, I was thinking about that guy recently, just a few minutes ago when you were speaking, about this teacher, because six months ago, I saved his life."

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 most Madagascar's they believe it to be extremely dangerous so they say it has such a powerful evil spirit but if you merely brush up against one accidentally the only way you can rid yourself of its taint and prevent the dreadful consequences of touching it is to cut

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 to figure out what he could and couldn't see. I think it helps explain his decision. Why? Because from his point of view, the federals were very weak. He was attacking at the logical place, but without full knowledge, he set his men out for a dreadful defeat.

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 For years, I tried desperately to cultivate in my kids a love of reading. I'd amassed a modest classroom library of books I'd accumulated from secondhand shops, thrift stores, attics -- you know. But whenever I said those dreadful words,

How America's public...

 to it with great interest. Since last Sunday's dreadful news, we have seen throughout Britain and around the world an overwhelming expression of sadness of Diana's death. So what I say to you now as your queen and as a grandmother

Princess Diana's Funeral...

 after one of my lectures reported a story, and that was a story -- He said he'd been listening to a symphony, and it was absolutely glorious music and at the very end of the recording, there was a dreadful screeching sound.

The riddle of experience...

 trust big business that is dreadful and by the way that number is number is similar in other countries around the world 30% of people feel engaged passionate energized and bring their whole selves to work again a dreadful

The era of higher ideals...

 and she said, "I know, isn't it dreadful?" It's hard to listen when somebody's that negative. And another form of negativity, complaining. Well, this is the national art of the U.K. It's our national sport.

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 Jeter after he'd broken his back on the trapeze but as I said by the time I joined the circus Dumbo was elderly and she had dreadful PMS she used to get horrendous hormonal moods and

Dreadful

Terrible, causing fear or shock.

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Very bad or low in quality.

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