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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a dreadful student" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who is failing or underperforming at school or in a particular subject. For example: Emma has always been an excellent student, but recently she's become a dreadful student and her grades have plummeted.
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I was a dreadful student in college.
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And touched is surely the right word: on the second occasion I met Oliver, in April of this year, he spoke of what a dreadful anatomy student he had been, barely able to conceive of all the convolutions within – yet, and he laughed at this, he'd always been a whizz at doing lumbar punctures, which can be notoriously difficult and excruciatingly painful.
It was only when I went to York University and did a history degree and all the most attractive girls wanted to be actresses, and in a pathetic and completely fruitless attempt to meet and impress them I'd go and watch them in dreadful student productions of things like "The Seagull" and "The Real Inspector Hound".
One man at UC Davis pepper-spraying a row of sitting students is a dreadful image to watch.
He was a wonderful man, but he was killed by the IRA in a dreadful accident, while walking his dog, during the time I was a student.
A dreadful controversy indeed!
What a dreadful impoverishment.
A dreadful thought occurs.
A dreadful end.
It's a dreadful, dreadful thing".
That's a dreadful thing to do.
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