dreadfulness

IPA: drˈɛdfʌɫnʌs

Examples of "dreadfulness" in Sentences

The sound of the wind adds to the dreadfulness. (via Japundit)
We must stick it out until the bitter end despite the dreadfulness of it all.
The US also avoided various forms of dreadfulness in the British Empire in the 1800s, like Irish and Indian famines.
An interesting book touching both on aristocratic privilege and on dreadfulness in 1800s Ireland is _The Reason Why_.
So well did Benita seem to understand Sanders that the Siren thinks his "dreadfulness" might have been oddly comforting at times.
"Huh!" sneered the terrible one, with such dreadfulness of menace as to cause Whiskers and Fatty involuntarily to close their hands down on their cave-man's weapons.
They're dispensed at frequent intervals by Diane Lane, who does better than anyone had a right to expect, since she is saddled with dialogue of exceptional dreadfulness.
If you pick up a copy of Marlene Zuk's brilliant, brilliantly titled SEX ON SIX LEGS expecting to find a Nature Channel-friendly book about the wonders or dreadfulness of the insect world, you might be a little bit disappointed.
The problem is that we've all learned to tolerate a level of overpaid, institutionalised corporate dreadfulness that no one actually likes but everyone meekly accepts because we've all been told that blockbuster movies have to be stupid to survive.