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812 examples of Dreadful in a sentence

this is a dreadful adaption of Charles Kingsley's story.
However, this is a dreadful film.
What a dreadful movie.
Eddie Albert as a president of the airlines; Charo in a dreadful "comical" bit; John Davidson as a newsman (love how his hair stays in place even AFTER the plane turns upside down!); poor Martha Raye is humiliated; Cicely Tyson plays a mother who is flying a heart for her dying son (stop rolling your eyes!); Jimmie Walker as a clarinet player (what did I say about not laughing?);
The acting was poor, the screenplay was very inaccurate and the score was dreadful.
ok, i am really into King's stuff, but this is just dreadful.
The film is dreadful, in the literal sense of the word.
This dreadful movie made no sense at all, and I would strongly recommend against watching it, as it will do nothing more than leave you completely baffled and bewildered.
Essentially this is a dreadful film with a few features that may or may not redeem it for you, depending on how much you want them to.
The script shamelessly serves one dreadful cliché after the other, like car wheels stuck in the mud at crucial times, malfunctioning flashlights and horridly broken dolls.
Russians never dropped children's toys filled with explosives over Afghanistan, that never happened!!! Who did invention of that?? Hollywood portrays Russian army as horrible, dreadful troops of evil!
It has some good actors in it, but they are off-form, and unable to do anything much with the dreadful material they are working with.
Reeves is wooden in the lead and casting Dan Aykroyd as a cop is so dreadful it has to be seen to be believed!.
No! no - No - NO! My entire being is revolting against this dreadful remake of a classic movie.
It's a shame to see Dennis Hopper's talent wasted in this dreadful movie.
Pretty dreadful movie about several unbalanced young people in a car starts off reasonably well but becomes more bizarre and hard to swallow as it progresses.
where - quite possibly - good intentions are scuppered by a dreadful screenplay, and where many of the characters are reduced to stereotypes.
Whatever cache Vincent Price was supposed to bring as narrator is completely overshadowed by dreadful production work.
Maybe It was the guy that looked like Big tom from survivor or the dreadful moustaches and mohawks these characters had, that kept me watching.
I could not believe how terrible and boring this Hollywood remake was.It's so dreadful.
The script is dreadful, the characters are one-dimensional, and the performances are the quality of high-school drama (except Marcia Gay Harden's, which is pretty good, given the material she has to work with).
So, all in all, it's beyond dreadful, terrible, and everything such.
It is dreadful in every way: crummy music, horrid choreography (check out the awkward lead male dancer), cheesy special effects and sets, wooden actors (the leads are barely at the high school level in their profession and were unheard of later), and a script without a single laugh.
The acting is uniformly dreadful with the two most recognisable cast members being two former soap stars quite visably out of their depth.
This version of David Copperfield is dreadful from start to finish.
I don't know what happened with the film version, because it was dreadful.
The characters are shallow and wooden, and the music, if you can call it that, is dreadful.
The acting was absolutely dreadful.
I cannot remember when I saw a more dreadful film.
However, the movie was absolutely dreadful.
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