Full of something causing dread, whether
"...Aunt Em will surely think something dreadful has happened to me, and that will make her put on mourning..."
Full of dread, whether
Shame to the slothful and woe to the weak one. Death to the dreadful who turn to flee. Blood to the tearing, the talon’d, the beaked one. Timor Mortis are We.
Dreadfully.
I'm sorry, Miz Terrigan. I'm dreadful sorry.
A shocker: a report of a crime written in a provokingly lurid style.
A journal or broadsheet printing such reports.
A shocking or sensational crime.
From Middle English dredful, dredfull, dredeful (also dreful), equivalent to dread + -ful.
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