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Recent Examples of dreadfully
For 20 games, opponents often shot dreadfully from distance against Miami, whether the three-point attempts were heavily contested or not.
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Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 14 Dec. 2025
Today, however, Rihanna turned even the most dreadfully boring activity into an opportunity to stunt.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 13 Nov. 2025
The back end of the bullpen is stout, yet the lineup is dreadfully short.
—Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dreadfully
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The data center industry does not have a terribly good answer for this, except that their 83° sun-synchronous orbit is much less crowded than equatorial ones, meaning a lower risk of collisions.—
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Polls, however, suggest the bill is not terribly popular with voters, which has left Republicans saying the White House must do a better job of selling it.—
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Robby—The Pitt executive producer, writer, director, and star Noah Wyle’s instantly iconic attending physician—is leading his final shift before a three-month leave that sounds like an awfully good idea following his meltdown last season.—
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However, officials went to the scorer’s table to review the play, which was awfully close.—
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The Penguins were horribly cavalier with the puck most of the game, and especially in the first period.—
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But an information-technology contract gone horribly awry on her watch resulted in late bills last year that required school districts throughout the county to borrow and pay substantial interest just to make payroll and cover basic expenses.—
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Taking just the bare stats into consideration, Rooney's managerial career has been defined by a horrendously low win rate, but that is in addition to a spate of embarrassing off-field antics.—
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In retaliating against the Union, TSG decided to disastrously impact its employees, its guests, local businesses, and our community.—
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Scientists have debated how much unnatural warming — built up in greenhouse gases released by burning fossil fuels — is likely to tip us into disastrously unmanageable weather systems.—
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The waiting room is already over-flowing with bloodied, weary, apparently horrifically smelling patients.—
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As for New England, this team under Mike Vrabel is better than the one that was horrifically overmatched under coach Raymond Berry and quarterback Tony Eason against Chicago.—
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That seems to bode poorly for stopping Saquon Barkley and the Eagles’ ground game.—
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Then came a reportedly pleasant but poorly timed interaction — one that now rests in Tepper and Panthers lore.—
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The attrition rate was abysmally high.—
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Confidence in the media is abysmally low, a finding confirmed regularly by many pollsters asking many different questions.—
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“Dreadfully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dreadfully. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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