Sentence examples similar to slightly dreadful from inspiring English sources
Baroness Vadera was recently pilloried for mentioning "green shoots", yet there have been a few in recent weeks - signs of buyer interest returning to the housing market, surveys of manufacturing, services and construction that were slightly less dreadful than the previous month, a gradual thaw in the credit markets.
It isn't as though they're slightly bad – they're dreadful.
I didn't need my new pen, but it felt terribly grown up to own one, and it made my dreadful handwriting look slightly more sophisticated.
Slightly more than a century ago radiology started with radiation casualties, loss of fingers and other dreadful effects caused by normal (non-interventional) x-ray imaging; now the dose for the same work can be lower than that at home.
Most of them may be dreadful, but as with the skiffle movement - in the Fifties - at least the emphasis will shift slightly from watching to participating.
