Example sentences for: dreadfully

How can you use “dreadfully” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • That clashes dreadfully.

  • We have here a delightfully constructed catch-22: if you don't study your grammar you're uneducated; if you do, you've been exposed to a proper education by your kindly school system; but when you use one of your grammar book's dreadfully improper constructions as a model, you place yourself in the class of the obviously simple-minded, whose opinions are irrelevant.

  • I certainly haven't seen much recently of the prestige media's dreadfully sententious hand-wringing along the lines of "Should we be dignifying with our attention these allegations about presidential fondling, as detailed in the following 62-page special report (and make sure not to miss the amazing revelations from the alleged victim's college roommate about her attitudes toward oral sex!)

  • How dreadfully mis lead ing!

  • Beyond the suspicion lay a Puritan sense that this was all dreadfully wrong.


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