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- adjective Archaic spelling of
dreadful .
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Examples
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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
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Is it Anne who in a different poem dies unknown of herself, "dazed with dreadfull face"?
Love in literature 2011
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Weather was wonderfull, ticks and mosquitos were dreadfull and the turkeys were not very cooperative.
Turkey Season Recap 2009
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Weather was wonderfull, ticks and mosquitos were dreadfull and the turkeys were not very cooperative.
Turkey Season Recap 2009
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I have never had my old dreadfull sickness at the stomach since the morning before we left London for Margate.
Letter 366 2009
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Drum, and all the dreadfull paraphernalia of noise and death.
Letter 137 2009
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If there were health and safety laws in USA as in Britain, such dreadfull shoes would be prohibited long ago.
Fashion statement 2010
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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
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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.
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That is a dreadfull world for the U.S. going forward.
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