Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Dreadful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Dreadful.
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- adjective obsolete
dreadful - adverb obsolete With
dread .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yes, my road is dark and dreadly, but I got to travel on down that way
Elmore James Lyrics 2009
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And my heart was wondrous proud and wondrous humble, so that I was in the same moment upraised and to feel dreadly unworthy.
The Night Land 2007
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And this, I crave strangely that you to understand; for it was so to me that I had a quiet and great respect for that thing; and did feel no hatred; yet was very dreadly in fear of it.
The Night Land 2007
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And this, I crave strangely that you to understand; for it was so to me that I had a quiet and great respect for that thing; and did feel no hatred; yet was very dreadly in fear of it.
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And my heart was wondrous proud and wondrous humble, so that I was in the same moment upraised and to feel dreadly unworthy.
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Of these races, some are wholly indifferent to man, some benign to him, and some dreadly hostile.
A Strange Story — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Of these races, some are wholly indifferent to man, some benign to him, and some dreadly hostile.
A Strange Story — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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if chiur brudder is dreadly scare of spiders .. and you are of normal mind .. as opposed to freakish dr. giggle that type ..
www.hardwarezone.com.sg ngeo12 2010
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"Ha! ha!" laughed a shrill and shrieking voice, which contrasted dreadly with the accents of the soft Tuscan, in which the wild words were strung -- "who comes here with garments dyed in blood?
Ernest Maltravers — Volume 09 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"Ha! ha!" laughed a shrill and shrieking voice, which contrasted dreadly with the accents of the soft Tuscan, in which the wild words were strung -- "who comes here with garments dyed in blood?
Ernest Maltravers — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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