Sentence examples for dreadful word from inspiring English sources
(Whatever talent I possess as a "humorist" — dreadful word — I owe to her).
Conspicuous consumption, like that dreadful word "luxury," feels dated: as '80s as Nan Kempner and leveraged buyouts, as '90s as the Miller sisters and tiny Prada backpacks.
She told me about the time when tourists aboard a plane feared her mother, dressed in a black abaya, treating her like the dreadful word my friend couldn't bear to utter.
When he heard the dreadful word, he emitted a shrill, heart-rending cry of despair, looked around him, as though eagerly seeking something, then turned to flee and rushed with outspread arms against a wall of the court, writhing, and scratching it as though trying to force an entrance between the stones, like a [polyp] clinging to a rock.
"I beseech you to take quite seriously these dreadful words," he wrote.
"I have made the point since that, if Australia had an Aboriginal Australian prime minister and the opposition leader went and stood in front of signs that said 'Sack the black', or inserted any of the dreadful words we have for Aboriginal Australians, it would have been a career-ending moment," she told the Atlantic.
Though its drift - that the world was a wicked place in which manipulators flourished - lacked the sophisticated edge of the satire movement, it was in the same key and flourished in London and New York, where the notices were dreadful but word of mouth had queues round the block.
Gissing's best known work, New Grub Street (1891), is a particularly dreadful book to anyone whose livelihood depends on their ability to produce a weekly quota of words.
