[
US
/ˈɑfɫi, ˈɔfəɫi/
]
[ UK /ˈɔːfəli/ ]
[ UK /ˈɔːfəli/ ]
ADVERB
-
of a dreadful kind
there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning -
in a terrible manner
she sings terribly -
used as intensifiers
terribly interesting
I'm awful sorry
How To Use awfully In A Sentence
- "I'm a vegan and I looked awfully skinny at one point, " she explains.
- Before military action can lawfully be undertaken against Iraq, the security council must have indicated its clearly expressed assent.
- v before my name awfully small; but anyone who knows can see it. A Young Girl's Diary
- But since there's nothing at all wrong with the statute that requires him to perform the ministerial task he has so far petulantly avoided, and because his malfeasance has been used to aggrieve the lawfully appointed Burris, White should be harshly condemned at the very least. Jeff Norman: Victory For Blago and Burris is Imminent
- The short version is that her parents were nutcases who treated her awfully; she ‘freaked out’ at age 11, ending up in a mental hospital.
- He's got the groove going and he paces his compilations like an expert DJ, but his blips and bleeps sound awfully derivative.
- Is there a huge problem with renegade owners unlawfully springing their offending dogs from the doggy jail?
- This is awfully sad but they say that twins are very close. Times, Sunday Times
- But there's something awfully deriative about them, a mish-mash of cubism, constructivism, futurism, vorticism, Merz and more.
- This bandy-legged, sawed-off little rat racer is awfully interesting in its own right. Fanboys in Flight: Subaru Roars In on a Wing