The phrase "dreadful outcome" is grammatically correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a negative or unfortunate result or consequence of an event or action. Example: The lack of preparation and planning led to a dreadful outcome for the project, causing disappointment and frustration among the team members.
In all of the examples he cites, people had no control over the dreadful outcome, even if its status was uncertain.
At worst, Zaire faces regional chaos and muddle, though it should avoid the most dreadful outcome of full-scale civil war.
The dreadful outcome of not performing TOP in a timely manner must be addressed and eliminated in the 21st century.
Poor schools have dreadful outcomes and tend to require expensive remediation efforts.
The NHS is a strained system, struggling to keep its costs in check and producing patchy and sometimes dreadful outcomes for patients in places where management falls short.
Given the dreadful outcomes associated with strongyloides hyperinfection following HSCT, screening with peripheral eosinophil counts and a strongyloides ELISA along with stool examination for confirmation may be warranted prior to HSCT.
IN EXPLAINING why America's proposed strikes on Syria would serve only a limited purpose, and were not intended to solve the broader conflict, Barack Obama fell back on a turn of phrase which has often been used, in good faith or otherwise, by leaders who are trying to limit their own responsibility for the outcome of some dreadful inter-communal conflict.
Anyone who knows a scintilla about baseball knows that the outcomes have been dreadful, not dominant, for the two Chicago clubs and Boston's finest.
That outcome would have been dreadful, both in its direct consequences and because of the opportunities lost.Among the short-term results, Turkey's impressive but still fragile programme of economic and political reform could have slowed or worse.
Firstly, the outcome in Iraq is already dreadful.
The idea was to eliminate the howlers, the dreadful decisions that might have (unfairly) altered the outcome.
