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The phrase "a dreadful memory of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a particularly unpleasant or distressing recollection of an event or experience.
Example: "She often found herself haunted by a dreadful memory of the accident that changed her life forever."
Alternatives: "a terrible recollection of" or "an awful remembrance of".
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"It's quite a few years and I have a dreadful memory of the musical and for people who think that's all there is, I thought it's important that people realise there is a lot more to Les Misérables than that sort of shoddy farrago.
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It was my last time in a Lions shirt, a dreadful memory which will live with me forever.
At the end, two marriages are in ruins, Nancy has gone mad, and Dowell, looking back in desolation, is alone with the dreadful memory of that perfect English gentleman, Edward Ashburnham, whose fatal flaw was his desperate and ruthless pursuit of love.
I have to confess to a dreadful lapse of memory and judgement.
Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Matviyenko said at the ceremony: "Money will not bring back ruined health, provide comfort for losses or sorrow or wipe out dreadful memories," but she called the money "a significant gesture of good will".
Yet, without those dreadful memories is the absence for growth, and the understanding of what it means to have strength.
It was pretty much the only opportunity Madrid had in a dreadful final, one of the worst in living memory.
Well, what a dreadful set of numbers.
"This is a dreadful piece of science".
I think it's a dreadful time of life".
The "World" is having a dreadful attack of Rooseveltphobia.
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