Dreadful
Both words in one sentence
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The Fleet used to be a dreadful open sewer, full of a stinking slurry of the most vile rubbish imaginable; any similarity to real persons living or dead is, of course, strictly unintentional.
Source: Useful Notes / London -
Silly Love Songs: The Party mass-produces them for the proles with a machine known as "versificator." Winston hears a prole woman singing one of these; while the song is "dreadful rubbish," she sings it with so much feeling that it almost becomes beautiful.
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