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  • adjective Archaic spelling of dreadful.

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Examples

  • The following year, one day after Congress endorsed the Declaration of Independence, John Adams wrote hopefully that greater hardships—for Americans—would ensue: It may be the Will of Heaven that America shall suffer Calamities still more wasting and Distresses yet more dreadfull.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Is it Anne who in a different poem dies unknown of herself, "dazed with dreadfull face"?

    Love in literature 2011

  • Weather was wonderfull, ticks and mosquitos were dreadfull and the turkeys were not very cooperative.

    Turkey Season Recap 2009

  • Weather was wonderfull, ticks and mosquitos were dreadfull and the turkeys were not very cooperative.

    Turkey Season Recap 2009

  • I have never had my old dreadfull sickness at the stomach since the morning before we left London for Margate.

    Letter 366 2009

  • Drum, and all the dreadfull paraphernalia of noise and death.

    Letter 137 2009

  • If there were health and safety laws in USA as in Britain, such dreadfull shoes would be prohibited long ago.

    Fashion statement 2010

  • Any of the Democratic candidates would be so much better than any of the Republican ones who are so dreadfull that even their own voters are dissatisfied.

    Poll: Hillary Inches Ahead Of Rudy In Swing States For First Time 2009

  • The fact that places like Treblinka used carbon monoxide from a tank engine to do the same dreadfull task you would have thought Williamson would have gained this information after sixty five years on.

    Andrea Tornielli "le smentite che non smentiscono" 2009

  • That is a dreadfull world for the U.S. going forward.

    Matthew Yglesias » Hagel-Bloomberg? 2007

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