What's the difference between dreadful and unsightly?

Dreadful


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of dread or terror; fearful.
  • (a.) Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm.
  • (a.) Inspiring awe or reverence; awful.

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".

Unsightly


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While restricting treatments of limited clinical value – such as operations to remove unsightly skin – is uncontroversial, reducing patients' access to drugs, district nurses, health visitors or forms of surgery they need to end their pain arouses huge concern.
  • (2) The collection of food around the lips during meals is an example of a little discussed but embarrassing and unsightly problem commonly experienced after a stroke.
  • (3) At the same time, it can also be used to eliminate dark circles around the eyes, blend in skin grafts, and mask unsightly blemishes.
  • (4) Paradoxically, the skin, positioned at the interface between the organism and its environment, embodies the visible envelope that surrounds pleasingly restructured muscle groups; at the same time it exhibits unsightly lesions produced as a consequence of the fitness program.
  • (5) Volume enhancement was effective in most cases, there being a significant reduction in the degree of recession of the prosthesis and the depth of the unsightly sunken sulci of the upper and lower lids.
  • (6) Dorsal digital burn contractures cause unsightly eponychial retraction and proximal nail exposure.
  • (7) The major concern is usually the unsightly appearance of the veins.
  • (8) Unsightly - and sometimes alarming - as these blemishes are, they must not distract from the reality that the House will do something historic if it listens to the advice of Barack Obama and passes legislation that remains more ambitious than anything he promised on the campaign trail.
  • (9) Evisceration may be indicated in patients with blind and unsightly or painful eyes and in selected instances of ocular trauma following discussion of the risk of sympathetic ophthalmia with the patient.
  • (10) Cesc Fàbregas threaded a pass into Costa’s stride and although the angle was difficult on the left side of the area, the use of Michael Dawson as a shield to unsight McGregor, and the accuracy of the curling effort combined for his 19th league goal of the season.
  • (11) Three patients developed unsightly conjunctival telangiectasia, 2 patients developed a persistent scleral ulcer and 2 patients developed clinically significant cataracts.
  • (12) This resulted in delayed healing and unsightly scars.
  • (13) Conventional closure of surgical defects in skin may cause unsightly protrusions (dog ears).
  • (14) The vertical skin incision leaves an unsightly scar for many female patients.
  • (15) Treatment usually consists of routine stripping of the main trunks and excision of all distal tributaries, resulting in many unsightly scars.
  • (16) In the 67th minute, Sunderland, picking up a head of steam from their intense following, equalised as Fabio Borini was found by Patrick van Aanholt’s neat pass and scored from just inside the area with a shot that Thibaut Courtois, unsighted by Terry, could only help into his own net.
  • (17) Unfortunately, unsutured punch grafts tend to cobblestone or rise-up in an unsightly manner.
  • (18) The need for early meticulous repair, so that unsightly scars and disfigurements may be prevented, cannot be overemphasized.
  • (19) It is a hairless, yellowish-red plaque until puberty when it becomes verrucous and unsightly.
  • (20) However, liposuction is a procedure that requires conservatism because overzealous fat removal can generally leave unsightly permanent sequelae.