Sentence examples for plain dreadful from inspiring English sources

Four are good, six are OK, five are ropey and three plain dreadful.

She was sort of correct: of the 12 or so comedians, six were funny, two were bad, two were depressing, and two were just plain dreadful.

It would happen in total darkness on the abyssmal plain (which sounds quite dreadful) or the Charlie Gibbs fracture zone (who was he?).

The Hymans had shown me a few of the sixteenth-century workhorses from their collection — recipes lifted from the court classics and sold by street peddlers as soon as there were customers literate enough to read them — and those books were plain little things, like penny dreadfuls, no bigger than four or five inches, that could be carried home in a pocket or a small purse.

As the prime minister twists and turns, pulled between his political id and the dreadful reality of making them plain, his spokesman, Yoshihide Suga, has spent the month putting out fires.

Dreadful effort.

"Perfectly dreadful.

How dreadful".

Just dreadful!

Dreadful shot.

Dreadful creature!