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fearful

/ˈfɪɹfəl/ adjective B2
  1. Frightening; causing fear.
  2. Tending to fear; timid. · a fearful boy
  3. Terrible; shockingly bad. (dated)
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“Only don’t say I didn’t warn you if he burns Green Gables down or puts strychnine in the well--I heard of a case over in New Brunswick where an orphan asylum child did that and the whole family died in fearful agonies.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 9 · C1
It’s a fearful responsibility to have a child in your house you can’t trust.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 96 · C1
Anne was graciously pleased to accept it and rewarded the donor with a smile which exalted that infatuated youth straightway into the seventh heaven of delight and caused him to make such fearful errors in his dictation that Mr.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 128 · C1
It’s been fearful lonesome here without you, and I never put in four longer days.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 241 · C1

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