Mr. Schickele's dreadful puns (Brittany Spears as French weaponry) would not long survive outside the pomposities and gloomy rituals of the symphonic stage.

It was with the first meeting, on July 25, that Fouquier-Tinville made a sadly dreadful pun.

Many involve cultural references-sometimes rather obscure-and often dreadful puns.

If you'll forgive a dreadful pun, the bucks stop here.

"A dreadful pun, Kim, but true."

They followed-and suddenly they were out of the comic strip, and the dreadful puns were gone.

I won't repeat the dreadful pun some witty fellow came up with by playing around with the ambiguity implicit in the word "bore."

All those dreadful puns.

He had fallen afoul of a dreadful pun but figured it out in time, so it could no longer hurt him.

Sherman is a naive but fairly bright, inquisitive, earnest and energetic lad who's always one step behind getting his friend's dreadful puns.