awfulness

[ US /ˈɔfəɫnəs/ ]
[ UK /ˈɔːfə‍lnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a quality of extreme unpleasantness
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How To Use awfulness In A Sentence

  • Grandiose though he was, he could hardly have imagined the fearsome awfulness of the twenty-first-century American imperium when he baptized its birth in the early days of the Second World War.
  • Spokesmen often justify the government's murky behaviour by reference to the awfulness of the Tigers.
  • They ease the pain, creating a private world of peace into which the prisoner can withdraw and temporarily forget the awfulness.
  • One has to be a certain age to remember the soggy, steamy awfulness that was the drudgery of washdays when it involved galvanised tubs, poss-sticks and mangles.
  • All the physical and chemical laws that are known to play an important part in the life of organisms are of this statistical kind; any other kind of lawfulness and orderliness that one might think of is being perpetually disturbed and made inoperative by the unceasing heat motion of the atoms., reply Harvard Posts The Wolfram Alpha Preview Video — Without A Single Shot Of The Service
  • Hanley Black's wife, a stout-in-the-middle matron of 45, thinks "It's positively indecent" while her husband "surveyed his wife's criminal shapelessness and voluminousness of ante-diluvian, New England swimming dress with a withering, contemplative eye" and tells her in a sentence never uttered by a human before or since, "You appear as a creature shameful, under a grotesqueness of apparel striving to hide some secret awfulness. “It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”
  • You've only seen a snippet of the awfulness to come. The Sun
  • One has to be a certain age to remember the soggy, steamy awfulness that was the drudgery of washdays when it involved galvanised tubs, poss-sticks and mangles.
  • He was afraid of being caught before he could accomplish his purpose, but behind this was a vaguer but larger fear of the awfulness of his crime.
  • Maybe their titles were inspired by the mind-blowing awfulness of some people's cooking.
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