Dread
Both words in one sentence
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Such "dread golems" have a nasty track-record for turning on their creators, to whom they have a psychic connection.
Source: Golem -
Dungeons & Dragons players dread the activation of a pressure plate, because nine times out of ten, it will set off a nasty trap that will ruin your whole day.
Source: Pressure Plate - The Dasati Dark God looks like this at first, but ultimately turns out to be a particularly nasty form of Eldritch Abomination called, appropriately enough, a Dread.
Source: Literature / The Riftwar Cycle
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