A quality of extreme unpleasantness.
1 It is dreadful, of course; but its dreadfulness melts into pure awfulness.
2 You think that you have quite conquered the dreadfulness of our origin.
3 There's a frightful constraint, a chilly, creepy dreadfulness steals about the party.
4 Despite the dreadfulness of the situation, they felt lucky to have each other.
5 For the first time he saw them in all their dreadfulness .
6 Everyone, including the narrator, is consumed by avarice: it is an extravaganza of dreadfulness .
7 The dreadfulness and unexpectedness of this catastrophe occupied me wholly.
8 Perhaps things of this kind will be manageable without dreadfulness .
9 There was a corresponding feeling of horror and the dreadfulness of war on both sides.
10 There had been barely a glance between us to betoken the dreadfulness of the moment.
11 Wrath fled from her knitted brows; her eyes dropping to the girl, lost their dreadfulness ; softened.
12 People remarked on the dreadfulness of the event.
13 No traits of chivalrous generosity are told of him, nothing that softens the dreadfulness of war.
14 By the discovering the dreadfulness of such a condition, and how hazardous it is to continue therein.
15 The increased dreadfulness of war due to modern weapons is, however, only one consequence of their development.
16 I see no darkness here, no dreadfulness .
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