Sentence examples for rather dreadful from inspiring English sources

A spy's nature, Maugham wrote, was "pitiless and rather dreadful".

You can watch a rather dreadful promo for the film above though, if you like.

Another was a habit of rather dreadful, somewhat unfunny mimicry, the content of which got back to the victims.

Getting second billing Monday night was a rather dreadful N.F.L. game, in which Tennessee's backup quarterback way outplayed Jacksonville's, writes David Climer in The Tennessean.

"Rather dreadful for an English girl to marry a Turk, I think, don't you?" a character in Agatha Christie's "Dumb Witness" says.

I think there might be a pony-skin situation on his shoes, which is always rather dreadful, because it looks like an extension of someone's foot hair.

Twitterstorms can be dreadful, rather like lynch mobs.

Rather than imagining dreadful Others, he took note of what other people were actually like.

If Japan tackles its demographic problems swiftly, it has a chance of being a model of how to deal with ageing, rather than a dreadful warning.

The latter sounds absolutely dreadful, rather giving the lie to the official line that the band broke up at the height of their powers.

This is a v ery dangerous thing to do to stir up a sort of youth movement in letters The implication is that something rather mysterious and dreadful happens to a creative person after thirty, rendering his writing more suitable for publication but devitalized.