Sentence examples for dreadful delight from inspiring English sources

Nights Out continues where City of Dreadful Delight stopped.

Twenty years ago Walkowitz published City of Dreadful Delight, an account of the textual world shared by Jack the Ripper, Josephine Butler, Eleanor Marx and Charles Booth.

Do we label the excited bride who just uploaded her gown portraits as a dreadful "somebody?" Do the thrilled parents of a newborn receive an eye-roll for daring to announce their delight to the world?

Dreadful effort.

"Perfectly dreadful.

How dreadful".

Just dreadful!

Dreadful shot.

Dreadful creature!

"Awful, dreadful.

Dreadful giggler.