dreadful mistake
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdreadfulandmistake
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dreadful
adjective
uk/ˈdred.fəl/us/ˈdred.fəl/
causing fear, shock, ...
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mistake
noun[C]
uk/mɪˈsteɪk/us/mɪˈsteɪk/
an action, decision, or judgment that produces an unwanted or ...
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(Definition ofdreadfulandmistakefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I hope that civil servants feel a little afraid when they are called before us to explain adreadfulmistake.
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If that is right, and we reject it, we shall have made adreadfulmistake.
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I hope very much that it will not be in house improvement grants because that would be adreadfulmistake.
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We kept aloof, but by 1960 we realised that our failure to join had been adreadfulmistake.
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Does he agree that it would be adreadfulmistakeif we did anything to damage our successful charter traffic?
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I fear that adreadfulmistakehas been made.
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That was adreadfulmistake.
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When adreadfulmistakehas been made, it is our duty to examine whether we can improve the system of government to prevent a repetition of the mistake.
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It will be adreadfulmistakeif anything is done to check the development of the container system whether on sea or land; and certainly the two must go together.
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She later said she knew on their wedding night she had made adreadfulmistake, and two months later she filed for divorce on grounds of desertion.
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Of course the announcers themselves occasionally make dreadful mistakes with uncommon words, especially place-names, but this is excusable, and apart from it we may claim to have succeeded.
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Dreadful mistakes are made in all sorts of places.
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I believe that it is a serious point and that we shall have dreadful mistakes made.
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People become too tired after 11.30 or so and dreadful mistakes can occur.
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Mixed wards are dreadful mistakes.
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That contrast shows that the courts make dreadful mistakes, however learned the individuals who serve the courts may be and despite their elevation to the status of judges.
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We have made dreadful mistakes there.
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