"dreadful report" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a negative or disturbing piece of information or news. Example: The newspaper's front page featured a dreadful report about the rising crime rate in the city.
His prim teacher, Miss Rich, a martinet in tweed suit and broach ("And no laughing, either," she sputters), requites him with a dreadful report card that produces a storm of parental prohibition: "No ice cream!
The positive report of his drainage results in 1883 was followed by a dreadful report in 1887.
My TV debate with Chingos on class size is here; here is a link to the radio show where I debated Raegen Miller, associate director for Education Policy at the Center for American Progress, about their dreadful report.
Apparently, New Orleans police officers write such dreadful reports, evidence is so hard to process and keep track of, and the two agencies work so poorly together that, in the eight months leading up to Hurricane Katrina, the city released more than seven hundred people.
The dreadful jobs report landed among tentative signs of improvement in a few areas of the economy, with recent snippets of data lifting stock markets and sowing cautious hopes that the beginnings of a recovery might be taking shape.
Surely, you thought, it cannot be as dreadful as reports suggest. .
And all those dreadful losses reported to be happening in the hedge fund industry, swirling with rumors about insider trading after the closure of David Ganek's Level Global and three other hedge funds in the wake of FBI raids?
Alternatively, if food-crop production were to remain stable, a huge amount of extra land would be needed for the fuels, or food prices would rise by anything from 15-40%, which would have dreadful consequences.Special report The 9 billion-people question How much is enough?
Chances were missed to save the life of a four-year-old boy who suffered from "terrifying and dreadful" abuse, a report has found.
Chances were missed to help the four-year-old who was murdered by his mother and her partner after suffering "terrifying and dreadful" abuse, a report found.
Chances were missed to help Daniel, who was murdered by his mother and her partner after suffering "terrifying and dreadful" abuse, the report has found.
