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95 examples of Dreadfully in a sentence

The movie is too dreadfully slow, the character development leaves much to be desired (which is almost a good thing sometimes...what was up with that Captain or General person who plays golf?).
However,in Bride Wars, Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway have reached a low point in their career, dreadfully overacting and dramatizing every little detail to the point of me losing interest.
In addition to being dreadfully acted, the characters (and the script) is simply imbecilic.
The story line was dreadfully cheesy, the acting was worse than usual, and the "special effects" were definitely something to be laughed at.
Well, first, it isn't a feature film but just a dreadfully boring promotional video for the Seafarer's Union and the narration makes Jack Webb's delivery on "Dragnet" seem emotional and off-the-cuff in comparison!! Now the awfulness of this film should NOT be held against Kubrick.
Even Manderley itself is dreadfully unimpressive.
The plot is just one of the many faults with this poorly edited, dreadfully acted, and misdirected failure.
This movie is dreadfully unfunny.
But, the actor playing Rimmer was stumbling dreadfully on the character.
This movie is dreadfully monotonous and even the various (mild) sex scenes have absolutely nothing in the way of chemistry or titillation.
All together, they had very little chemistry together and the film itself was dreadfully uninteresting.
This on the other hand was just dreadfully boring.
Instead of being titillating or innovative, the film was just dreadfully dull, uninvolving and so melodramatic and campy that I would almost rather eat a live rat than see this film again!
The plot quickly becomes tiresome, a weekly repertory company is rehearsing a dreadfully written play, "Tarnished Gold".
Dreadfully bad, the acting is so poor it draws attention to what is going on in the film, not that it matters.
This doesn't always guarantee a great movie, mind you, as Franco and Lee previously collaborated to make a couple of sequels in the Fu Manchu series, and they were dreadfully boring films.
Despite sounding dreadfully dull, the entire movie is about two brothers who own a struggling restaurant and the preparations they make for a special dinner which will be attended by the singer, Louis Prima (King Louie's voice in Disney's Jungle Book).
This may sound like a very interesting concept for a monstrous horror movie, but "Deadly Waters" is dreadfully boring and poorly made.
It seems he will take her to his estate straight off.''He's dreadfully rich, they say.
I am dreadfully sorry for her.''God willing, everything will now soon be settled!
And then she thought how happy life might still be, and how tormentingly she loved and hated him and how dreadfully her heart was beating.
After changing clothes, I climbed onto the platform, and in the grip of dreadfully obsessive thoughts, I sat next to the beacon.
It was carelessly packed in Paris; the silver tissue has been dreadfully frayed at the top.
The washerwoman was pleased with the softness of her lover's manner, but dreadfully scandalized at his insinuation.
I was dreadfully afraid that upon such a proposal he would have taken me at my word, viz. to sell my little income as I called it, and turn it into money, and let him carry it over into Ireland and try his experiment with it; but he was too just to desire it, or to have accepted it if I had offered it; and he anticipated me in that, for he added, that he would go and try his fortune that way, and if he found he could do anything at it to live, then, by adding mine to it when I went over, we should live like ourselves; but that he would not hazard a shilling of mine till he had made the experiment with a little, and he assured me that if he found nothing to be done in Ireland, he would then come to me and join in my project for Virginia.
I told her the history of my Lancashire marriage, and how both of us had been disappointed; how we came together, and how we parted; how he absolutely discharged me, as far as lay in him, free liberty to marry again, protesting that if he knew it he would never claim me, or disturb or expose me; that I thought I was free, but was dreadfully afraid to venture, for fear of the consequences that might follow in case of a discovery.
However, I was indeed dreadfully dejected, and disconsolate to the last degree; and as I had no friend in the world to communicate my distressed thoughts to, it lay so heavy upon me, that it threw me into fits and swoonings several times a day.
He lived as little as possible in the shop, preferring to stroll about all day; and he found life so dreadfully dull with nothing to do, that he spoke of returning to Vernon.
I am so dreadfully frightened.
He is so violent, so prejudiced, and has been so--so anxious in behalf of his friend, Mr, Sawyer,' added Arabella, looking down, 'that I fear the consequences dreadfully.''Ah, to be sure,' said Perker gravely.
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