Between the Sheets isn't dreadful, but it sounds like an opportunity missed.
"The Casual Vacancy, which one bookseller breathlessly predicted would be the biggest novel of the year, isn't dreadful.
The show isn't dreadful in the manner of this season's most conspicuous eyesore of a movie, "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas," though it might be more interesting if it were.
The film is surprisingly good because it's not dreadful: it is so easy to go wrong when trying to do the right thing on television.
The author feels that her mother's experiences in Wales were not dreadful, or wrong, but enriched her life.
Sainsbury's second-quarter sales weren't dreadful by the recent standards of Tesco and Morrisons.
I think as bad decisions go, it wasn't a frightful one... [The Dome] wasn't dreadful.
All three seamers have been not-dreadful but hardly threatening.
The fear of terrorism is not so dreadful as the fear of plague.
Pitt just seems happy that the blockbuster is not as dreadful as it was when he saw the first cut.
Still, as Simon Evenett, a professor of trade at the University of Saint Gallen, Switzerland, points out, this is not as dreadful as it might have been, or as it was in the 1930s.
