a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked.
a dreadful storm.
a fearful howling.
a hideous pattern of injustice.
a terrible curse.
an awful risk.
dire news.
horrendous explosions shook the city.
horrific conditions in the mining industry.
polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was.
subjected to outrageous cruelty.
the awful war.
the dread presence of the headmaster.