#dreaded

The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties. ↗

— John Foxe

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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. ↗

— James Madison

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In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful roles and made fun of myself to friends, my work made me cringe - I dreaded anyone's seeing it. I was crushed that I wasn't doing anything I was proud of. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

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My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it. ↗

— Jason Mraz

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I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl. ↗

— Robin Wright Penn

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This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error. ↗

— Benjamin Rush

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Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise. ↗

— Paula Abdul

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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. ↗

— Epictetus

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There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before. ↗

— John Bonham

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