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A shocker: a report of a crime written in a provokingly lurid style.
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A journal or broadsheet printing such reports.
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A shocking or sensational crime.
adjective
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Full of something causing dread, whether
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Full of dread, whether
adverb
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Dreadfully.
Examples of dreadful in a Sentence
He thought it would be dreadful for me.
I'm sure she caught that dreadful disease from one of them and it killed her.
It would be dreadful to eat these dear little things.
She is the third to do so since I've been in this dreadful place.
So dreadful had been the yoke of Rome, which they had shaken off, that they feared to submit to anything similar even under Protestant auspices.
Miss M was much nettled when I told her I'd no longer dance to her music and I saw her talking about me to the man who owns this dreadful place.
Without them, lowly federal agents would still be in the dark in identifying the combatants in this dreadful war.
Then suddenly it became clear to Sonya that Natasha had some dreadful plan for that evening.
Natasha, afraid that her brother would do something dreadful, had followed him in some excitement.
We were lucky to get away from those dreadful vegetable people.
They suffered dreadful hardships.
Their sufferings on the route were dreadful; many succumbed and were abandoned.
I said it then only because it would have been dreadful for him, but he understood it differently.
In 1733-1734 there was a dreadful epidemic of smallpox, which destroyed a great number of the people.
Finland has been visited at different periods since by these scourges; so late as 1848 whole villages were starved during a dreadful famine.
She thought of Natasha and of her own youth, and of how there was something unnatural and dreadful in this impending marriage of Natasha and Prince Andrew.
To lack such care and tendance was - along with want of regular burial - the most dreadful fate that could overtake an ancient; and a Roman, like a Hindu, in case he was childless, adopted a male child whose duty it would be, as if his own son, to continue after his death the family rites or sacra.
The other day I broke my doll's head off; but that was not a dreadful accident, because dolls do not live and feel, like people.
If what we hear is true, it is dreadful.
One could have traveled round the word many times while I trudged my weary way through the labyrinthine mazes of grammars and dictionaries, or fell into those dreadful pitfalls called examinations, set by schools and colleges for the confusion of those who seek after knowledge.
An exodus followed which, necessary as it was, caused dreadful hardship, and among the Roman Catholic Irish in America Fenianism took its rise.
That's awful... and to escape from these dreadful thoughts she went to Sonya and began sorting patterns with her.
Typhon's later career, " committing dreadful crimes out of envy and spite, and throwing all things into confusion," was parallel to the proceedings of most of the divine beings who put everything wrong, in opposition to the being who makes everything right.
He carried his resolution within himself in terror and haste, like something dreadful and alien to him, for, after the previous night's experience, he was afraid of losing it.
Perhaps the dreadful aims of the Third Reich are now being achieved by stealth, much more effectively than Hitler could ever have done.
His wish was gratified, in the dreadful tempest of Nov. 27th.
It was your whining voice and that dreadful tie you 're wearing.
I just hope that I do n't end up with a dreadful troublemaker label for my efforts.
I'm glad I did n't bathe in that dreadful water!
So I find it totally abhorrent and incomprehensible when I hear about the dreadful cruelty and neglect inflicted on some animals.
There was Diana Dors there, who had a dreadful mink bikini.
Then a dreadful couple of days cleaning out the engine room bilges.
It was not for long, however; for a month or two later a dreadful calamity fell upon Marija.
The question is how to eliminate such dreadful destitution.
Yes, it does smell particularly dreadful, but there is a belief in the orient that it is a good slipperiness additive.
Some are good, some are mediocre, some are truly dreadful.
Which leads on to the most obvious bit of all, the ref was absolutely dreadful.
And there are some pretty dreadful tracks here, let's not mess about.
On a line that's supposed to run once every eight minutes - quite dreadful LU, please take note.
In the second half, Burnley were simply dreadful.
I was very hungover, I just felt dreadful.
Em your colleagues sound dreadful, you have my sympathy!
If the alloys have a chrome finish they can cost a fortune to get refurbished but look dreadful when scratched.
It seems dreadful to discuss the conduct of one's wife with two men whom I have never seen before.
And I hear you can't drink the water and the waiters have dreadful, roving hands.
Her mother is Chinese, which gives her a slightly exotic look. the music is dreadful.
Unwelcome visits from the landlord only increase the nervous hysteria already developing in the small flat fueling dreadful consequences.
By the light of his lamp he saw the ambush and " with dreadful imprecations " called to his companions to bring pistols.
Playing a great deal of flowing attacking rugby in what were dreadful conditions, Ashton's side looked simply irresistible.
He spun round with a scream and fell upon his back, his hideous red face turning suddenly to a dreadful mottled pallor.