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US
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[ UK /fɹˈaɪtənɪŋli/ ]
[ UK /fɹˈaɪtənɪŋli/ ]
ADVERB
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in an alarming manner
the disturbing thing about the Minister's behavior is that far from being artificial, it too often rings frighteningly true
How To Use frighteningly In A Sentence
- On the ranges of Fort Devens, the troops were put through their paces on US weapons, from the stock-in-trade M16 assault rifle to the frighteningly-effective M249 SAW light machine gun.
- It reminds me of another frighteningly different culture which nonetheless fascinates us.
- She was seething, but her anger was frighteningly under control.
- But in his 1932 novel Brave New World, he created one of the truly memorable 20th-century dystopias, which is also one of the most frighteningly pessimistic.
- The film was frighteningly realistic.
- Sam smiled a bit as the rest offered their own strained smiles and laughs to his amusing but rather frighteningly honest statement.
- The seasons, frighteningly unfamiliar to your average cook, are second nature to Susan and Margaret.
- Chicago Reader's Jonathan Rosenbaum gives us his blurb: Suggesting at different moments a backstage musical, a failed love story, a surreal comedy, and even a cartoon fantasy, this beautiful, corrosive, visionary masterpiece by Jia Zhang-ke is a frighteningly persuasive account of the current state of the planet. MILF:04 The World
- His only other friends are shapeshifters and a hairy, bestial half-giant… and Dumbledore, who's frighteningly absent much of the time.
- Many school bullies are in the pipeline to prison: their problems with drugs and alcohol and violence are frighteningly easy to forecast, and studies have documented that the connection between school bullying and future criminality is real -- so real in fact that New York's district attorney's office has deployed staff from the prosecutor's office to visit schools and address bullying. Kevin Cathcart: New Media, Old Problem