The phrase "a dreadful one" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is very bad or unpleasant, often in a subjective context.
Example: "The movie received poor reviews, and many critics called it a dreadful one."
Alternatives: "a terrible one" or "an awful one".
Last year was a dreadful one for Berkshire.
It'd be as big a change as any, and a dreadful one to get used to.
That said, he and other experts stress that when it comes time to run, your mental attitude is often the difference between a good race and a dreadful one.
The prosecutor told the court: "Killing to make a political point, or to frighten the public to put pressure on the government, or as an expression of anger, is murder and remains murder whether the government in question is a good one, a bad one or a dreadful one.
They conjure the afflictions of the opportunistic infections that made the disease such a dreadful one; the stigma that was attached to it; the fear of dying lonely and abandoned; and the vague, oppressive, almost unbearable anxieties that young people — with the disease or living in terror of contracting it — had to live with every day.
And also, do the GPs have enough specialist knowledge to accurately give them pre-conception counselling?" Newport West MP Paul Flynn said: "The plight of these mothers is a dreadful one because they tend to blame themselves but whatever it is, it's nothing to do with the mother.
It read like the ramblings of a man the morning after a dreadful one-night stand with the electorate, wondering what on earth he promised during the passion.
It's rarely remembered that he went into the 1996 World Cup with a dreadful one-day record - an average of 19 from 99 matches - but that was all forgotten as he made 79 off 93 balls against India, 44 off 43 against Kenya and then 82 off 44 to see off a pitiful England in the quarter-finals.
The Sparks were a dreadful one-for-12 from beyond the three-point arc, and they committed 14 turnovers, which led to 23 points for the Mercury.
There are rarely good years, but 2014 has been a particularly dreadful one in the annals of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
