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English adverb: awfully

1. awfully used as intensifiers


SamplesTerribly interesting.
I'm awful sorry.


Synonymsawful, frightfully, terribly


Domain usagecolloquialism

2. awfully of a dreadful kind


SamplesThere was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning.


Synonymsdreadfully, horribly

3. awfully in a terrible manner


SamplesShe sings terribly.


Synonymsabominably, abysmally, atrociously, rottenly, terribly









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