What's the difference between abysmally and dreadfully?
Abysmally
Definition:
(adv.) To a fathomless depth; profoundly.
Example Sentences:
(1) "As a stylist Brown gets better and better: where once he was abysmal he is now just very poor," wrote Jake Kerridge in the Daily Telegraph .
(2) In fact, the general standard of new architecture here is, sadly, abysmal.
(3) That the host defenses may be somewhat enhanced by pregnancy while susceptibility to certain diseases is increased is paradoxical and serves to underscore the fact that our understanding of host defense in pregnancy is abysmally deficient.
(4) Even with no strikes, Southern’s public performance measures remain abysmal by most standards, with only 70% of trains running to within five minutes of their advertised time on Tuesday.
(5) Richard Di Natale, the Greens leader and Victorian senator, said it was likely the final make-up of the Senate would not be known for weeks, but that the result, already, had been an “abysmal failure” for the government.
(6) "Please ignore the abysmal example set by President Obama who, in the name of Thanksgiving, supports torture as 45 million birds are horrifically abused; dragged through electrified stun baths, and then have their throats slit.
(7) "This law has the potential to make Afghanistan an absolute abysmal catastrophe as it relates to public order, rule of law and general common decency."
(8) Newcastle’s manager responded by replacing Yoan Gouffran, abysmal in central midfield, with Emmanuel Rivière as he switched from 4-1-4-1 to 4-4-2.
(9) A second delivery review team visit in September was told by Lorenzo's deputy head of testing that test results were "abysmal".
(10) That public policy has abysmally failed the chronically mentally ill seems beyond genuine dispute.
(11) The abysmal condition of nutrition in India, both undernutrition and overnutrition , has crept into the global development agenda recently, with increasing focus from academics, policymakers and activists.
(12) That first half was abysmal, a complete disgrace, but this is much improved fare.
(13) And given the abysmal farce of the AV referendum, the very last people to listen to on the timing and terms of a referendum would be the Lib Dems."
(14) The whole French team, their coac h, Raymond Domenech, and the French football federation are just abysmally stupid.
(15) The criticism reached a crescendo in January when the BBC's Inside Out broadcast a report claiming the wages being paid to workers at Kibale were 'abysmal' and that viewers would do better to reduce their own carbon emissions than to buy offsets.
(16) Even with several office jobs and internships under my belt, my job prospects looked abysmal.
(17) To allow someone into the UK who is explicitly promoting these things is abysmal.” A social media campaign against Blanc has gathered pace in recent days, with Twitter users sharing pictures of him with his hand around the throats of women that he has shared using the hashtag #ChokingGirlsAroundTheWorld.
(18) Despite monumental pent-up demand for more housing in London, there isn’t enough being built – and because the volume house builders don’t care about architecture, community life or civic space, the quality of new housing is generally abysmal.
(19) So while it might have other merits, it is surely wrong for TfL to issue a blank cheque, particularly given the financial pressures they face from the chancellor.” Authors, architects and artists line up to lambast ‘abysmal’ garden bridge plan Read more Peck also cited Khan’s lack of support for the bridge between Temple and the South Bank.
(20) To this extent, Khomeini's edict and the murderous campaign it engendered failed abysmally.
Dreadfully
Definition:
(adv.) In a dreadful manner; terribly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thinking I had the dreaded Norovirus, I rushed home.
(2) We should be grateful the School Food Trust has established this now, before we end up falling down a slippery slope back towards the dreaded Turkey Twizzler that Jamie Oliver campaigned to banish," he added.
(3) So what should those who have long dreaded this moment do now?
(4) Dr Bhambra sustained the most dreadful life-changing injuries during a sustained racist attack on an innocent man, a member of a caring profession.” There was applause from the public gallery as the verdict was returned.
(5) Despite a dreadful end to last season, culminating in a 6-1 defeat at Stoke City, FSG are pressing ahead with transfer plans agreed with Rodgers, indicating the manager’s position is safe at the moment.
(6) The image of older people, epitomised in the dreadful road sign, is about health and disability, but poverty is an equally defining feature, so we could talk about older people dependent on social security and those who have other sources of income.
(7) Panic attacks would overwhelm her periodically and she experienced regular “ scanxiety ” – the feelings of dread that grip patients before new tests.
(8) If you are a London commuter dreading tube strike chaos this evening and tomorrow there is an alternative to fighting your way on to overcrowded buses or a long walk.
(9) Many clinicians have realised that AIDS is only the most dreadful aspect of HIV infection.
(10) I have to say I think Iran are the poorest team I've seen so far – Nigeria were dreadful in that game but you got the sense that at leas they were a half-decent team playing badly.
(11) After expressing frustration with Stoke City's style of play, the dreadful standard of the game and the lack of width available on a pitch narrowed to exploit Rory Delap's throw-ins, Tony Mowbray finally realised that a sixth defeat in seven matches might also owe something to West Bromwich Albion's shortcomings.
(12) Thus China replaced a state bureaucracy with a similar state bureaucracy under a different name, the USSR replaced the dreaded imperial secret police with an even more dreaded secret police, and so forth.
(13) It's unfair to single him out on the basis of a performance in which almost all of his team-mates have been dreadful, but he's been consistently awful throughout this tournament and keeps getting picked.
(14) They'll dread the same thing happening again, possibly during an election campaign.
(15) Despite his humorous dismissal of the danger, those close to him dreaded the trips, with the archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, admitting: "My heart is in my mouth every time he goes to Nigeria."
(16) So Richard arose as himself again, a dreadful apparition cavorting.
(17) Try Penny Dreadful Read more Conleth Hill, who plays Machiavellian royal fixer Varys, kept the crowd in stitches.
(18) Even after yesterday's dreadful GDP figures , a year on from the financial firestorm, it has become apparent that we are not about to suffer a full rerun of America's Great Depression.
(19) CSKA Moscow survive PSV Eindhoven fightback after Seydou Doumbia double Read more Van Gaal, clearly unenthused by the team’s display, cannot have missed another limited performance from Wayne Rooney, most notable for a fairly dreadful shot when Anthony Martial’s quick feet and directness gave him a chance after 20 minutes.
(20) Soubry compared nicotine to heroin as she spoke of how she found it difficult to give up smoking because nicotine is a "dreadful substance" that creates a "perverse psychology of smoking".