The phrase "a dreadful effect on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a negative impact or consequence that something has on a person, situation, or environment.
Example: "The sudden change in climate has had a dreadful effect on local wildlife populations."
Alternatives: "a harmful impact on" or "a negative influence on".
The loss of The Bill will have a dreadful effect on the ecosystem of drama.
This is a poor argument on two grounds: for one, expensive new housing and schools would have to be built in the United States to accommodate the families and, more important, it would have a dreadful effect on morale.
What is clear is that Mr. Garner and his catalogue of false stories and bogus eyewitness accounts -- and the willingness of the police and prosecutors to use him as a witness in important cases -- are having a dreadful effect on the criminal justice system.
On top of impacting human health, landfills have a dreadful effect on the environment: they produce enormous amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes disproportionately to global warming.
Actually, Chemie Grünenthal remains silent still on adjusting compensation for inflation and the dreadful effects on the victims – the men and women in adulthood, many now without parental support.
"We saw when the football [World Cup] was on last year the dreadful effect it had on Twenty20 and we don't want to be competing with the big events".
Proud and happy talk of a "Polish Gazprom" is rather chilling, given the dreadful effect that the real Gazprom has had on Russia.
He portrayed its dreadful effects not only on the body but on the mind.
As a result, the smallest differences in overall antagonistic capacity most often allow a profitable antagonistic order to be established, however short-lived it may be. 5 The contrast between bodily and cultural weaponry is therefore striking: a sharp stick in the belly, or a club's blow on the skull, necessarily have dreadful effects, whatever the weight or size of the attacker.
"The performance was good on a dreadful pitch to play on," McGhee said.
Responding to today's committee vote, Jim Killock, executive director of digital rights group, the Open Rights Group, attacked what he dubbed a "dreadful law", warning it would have a chilling effect on freedom of expression online.
