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Example sentences for: dreadfully
How can you use “dreadfully” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Calling the script "dreadfully predictable" and a "cliché-hugging melodrama" (Jack Mathews, Newsday ), critics complain that it lacks the fun of two other recent dance movie successes, Shall We Dance?
Culturebox is admittedly, as Edgar Allan Poe once wrote, "nervous--very, very dreadfully nervous."
Beyond the suspicion lay a Puritan sense that this was all dreadfully wrong.
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!)
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.
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