'dreadful action' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a negative action that is bad, frightening, or shocking. Example: His dreadful action ruined the entire holiday experience for the rest of us.
Con Air was a dreadful action movie, featuring Nicolas Cage, that Cusack did for the money.
He added, "You can't legislate to stop a switch flicking in someone's head and this sort of dreadful action taking place".
I have grave concerns about some of the pupils with whom I have had dealings, as have my colleagues, but there is no one to whom a teacher or a pupil can turn, within the present framework, to express these concerns in order to ensure that the dreadful action which took place in April will not be repeated.
If you continue blocking humanitarian vessels to Gaza or repeat the dreadful actions of 31 May 2010 against any Gaza freedom flotillas then you will leave us no choice but to strike back.
Mendeleev writes, "The recent dreadful actions taken by the Russian Government limiting the rights of the LGBT community and the passionate reaction of the community have prompted me to write this letter to you.
Even after the drug wears off, the voices persist, mocking and humiliating him and goading him toward some dreadful, unspecified action.
The decade before the abolition of slavery and three of the most profoundly progressive amendments to the U.S. Constitution saw the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Dred Scott decision, three of the most dreadful, slavery-promoting actions our government had ever taken.
And in letters to disturbed readers in 1946 and 1965, she denied that the scene is "actual rape" which, she stated, is "a dreadful crime," a "vicious action and a violation of a woman's rights" (Rand 1995a).
After more than 27 years and dozens of understandably unanswered apology letters, I still sit in my cell thinking about Tremain and that one fatal shot the dreadful, inexcusable, and irreversible action of my 17-year-old self.
"The dreadful result of your actions was that Paris died.
Yvette Cooper, the shadow Home Secretary and Minister for Women & Equalities, said: "These dreadful figures show why national action is desperately needed to tackle sexual violence.
