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horribly

/ˈhɔɹəbli/ adverb B2
  1. In a horrible way; very badly. · The beginning art students displayed their horribly executed paintings with hopeful faces.
  2. To an extreme degree or extent. · Then everything went horribly wrong.· The man was horribly nice, yet she still wouldn't marry him.
  3. With a very bad effect. · Horribly, as he was dying, his eyes reddened.
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“I was horribly frightened,” she told Mrs.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 224 · C1
Sometimes I think I’ll be all right--and then I get horribly afraid.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 265 · C1
Last night I was horribly lonesome all alone in my room and wished so much you were with me.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 268 · C1
It was very dark, and the wind howled horribly around her, but Dorothy found she was riding quite easily.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 4 · B2

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