awful
/ˈɔfəl/ adverb C2- Awfully; dreadfully; terribly.
- Very, extremely. · That's an awful big house.· She seemed awful nice when I met her yesterday.
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The baby’s awful fractious, and I’m clean worn out attending to him.
I suppose you think I have an awful temper, but I couldn’t help it.
The little girls of Avonlea school always pooled their lunches, and to eat three raspberry tarts all alone or even to share them only with one’s best chum would have forever and ever branded as “awful mean” the girl who did it.
Ruby Gillis, who got a glimpse of it as it went down, told the others going home from school that she’d “acksually never seen anything like it--it was so white, with awful little red spots in it.”
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