How To Use Frightfully In A Sentence
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To come suddenly, on turning a corner, upon a colossal warrior, deterrently uncouth and frightfully battle-clad, in the act of dispatching a fallen foe, is a sensation not instantly dispelled by the fact that he is made of flowers.
The Soul of the Far East
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Their outlook towards a venomous German attempt to do something "frightfully" nasty, is very similar to a large and powerful nurse dealing with a fractious child -- sort of: "Now, then, Master Frankie, you mustn't kick and scream like that.
Bullets & Billets
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She was frightfully noisy; she clarioned her hallelujah hymns at the top of her voice, regardless of what company might be in the house.
From Place to Place
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The number of people who decided whether or not our song would be played was frightfully small.
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He was frightfully overpraised; how hard is it to be a travel writer?
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Playing a psychotic once again in Cape Fear in 1991, De Niro was frightfully convincing as the vengeful convict.
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You never dream that you are making me frightfully unhappy.
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They're pretty funny, and frightfully accurate… they also seem a little mean-spirited.
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Was it intimidating stepping into this frightfully sophisticated world of aesthetes and orthorexics?
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That sense of celluloid sumptuousness is tangibly present in 2005's standalone Hubert Horatio Bartle Bobton-Trent, which tells the story of "child genius" Hubert and his "frightfully, frightfully rich" parents, flighty socialites who own mansions in London and Milan and a "swankily swell house in New York".
A life in books: Lauren Child
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My muscles are still frightfully sore, but they are looser then yesterday.
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It was innocent stuff by today's standards, but considered frightfully daring at the time.
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Because we're frightfully busy here at the office, all I can give you now is reassurance that the lady and I are okay, a little bruised and sore, but okay.
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It is frightfully fashion-forward to speak of how the Levy must be replaced by a more up-to-date mechanism that – how does the line go?
Our old dames of the Turf, the Levy and Tote, need care and attention
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She, too, was in debt; "frightfully" her husband had used the right word; "hopelessly" so far as satisfying her creditors, even out of the large allowance Mr. Ferrars made her; and still she had not the courage voluntarily to tell the truth, which yet she knew must burst upon him ere long.
The Wedding Guest
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Before that she was frightfully keen on a thing called uric acid.
Priscilla's Spies
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Most of your run of the mill idiocy falls into a middle category somewhere between frightfully dim to downright dense.
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Outside of the top five teams, it all seems frightfully close, doesn't it?
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The sword swished frightfully through the air, and inflicted on the Count’s neck a wound slight indeed, but a trifle deeper than the barely visible scratch which had been given to the others.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
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Some of what it has produced does sound frightfully cogent for a non-human product.
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The latter is especially inviting, as Dark Horse Comics released three frightfully king-sized collections in time for All Hallow's Eve.
October 2009
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The indignant theorist casts aspersions on their methods, inserts a non sequitur regarding its effects and explains how this is frightfully unfair for the "little guy".
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Great beach, good food, frightfully stylish surroundings.
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The same unquenchable, almost frightfully unresting spirit of endeavor, directed (woe is me!) to the making of money, or money's worth; namely, food finer and finer, and gigmanic renown higher and higher: nay, must not your gigmanity be a
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
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He often aphorized, "Frightfully hackneyed to say,
The Job An American Novel
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Tudor, having pulled through the fever and started to mend, was still frightfully weak and very much starved.
Chapter 24
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That was a frightfully clever four no-trump call of yours. '
Hercule Poirot's Casebook
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I'm frightfully sorry about the noise last night.
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These are the best examples of how frightfully inconvenient things can get ...
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And some of the ways they get to flex that saving-grace rapier wit are ultimately deeply unlikable because they’re often just plain bitchy about it, and mean humour wears so frightfully thin, thin as our svelte raven-haired cerulean-eyed heroine.
Me and Chick-Lit « Tales from the Reading Room
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But in the flesh, trim and handsome, she seems wilfully unshowy and, well, frightfully nice.
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I'm frightfully sorry about the delay.
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Being so frightfully concerned for her, I refused to touch the soft fontanel at the top of her head for any reason.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms
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Get it right and everybody says how frightfully clever and amusing you are.
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She was running before the wind -- yawing frightfully -- her staysail let down to act as a sort of extra foresail, -- "scandalized," they call it, -- and her foreboom guyed out over the side.
Captains Courageous
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You're frightfully good at this sort of thing.
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For the _cordon-bleu_ hoped that the lion would exhibit disapproval of the paint and powder by chumping off the offending head, and that would have been frightfully thrilling.
Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"
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I'm afraid France took engravings and etchings, while it was a frightfully disappointing year for reliefs, with no gold medal awarded at all.
Pole dancing seeks an Olympic leg-up | Marina Hyde
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However, up until very recently, your average karaoke bar was a frightfully seedy affair.
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Frightfully good new state secondary up the road, darling.
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Apparently under this name there are several tribes inhabiting lands of various elevations; some are coloured café au lait, as if born in a high and healthy region; others are almost jet black with the hair frightfully "wispy," like a mop.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
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Hardly deserving of 'the most trusted man in America' moniker either; history has shown that he was frightfully deceitful.
Who Should Be The Next Administrator of NASA? - NASA Watch
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The notional $1.14 quadrillion (as reported by the Bank for International Settlements, which is in Switzerland) only becomes real (and frightfully dangerous) if either counterparty to a derivative goes bankrupt and if the defaulter is a major institution.
Dinocrat
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Lots of them, of course, were frightfully swell (Betty annexed "frightfully" at school, by the by) and had all sorts of clothes; but Betty was perfectly content with her modest outfit, and none of the other girls seemed to mind how she dressed.
The Fortune Hunter
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I say, I beg your pardon, frightfully — I'm afraid I'm bein 'beastly long-winded.
Whose Body?
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I've been informed that he considers me frightfully underbred.
HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
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The irony is that, with his frightfully pukka delivery and actorish manner, Stephens's hero seems to be of an older stylistic vintage than anyone else on stage.
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'frightfully' something or other during the evening.
The Head of the House of Coombe
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Bhaiya, meanwhile, sent self-pitying letters from near Delhi where he was undergoing military training of his own trials in a world that he found ‘frightfully Poona: chukka, pukka, whisky soda and tiffin: still, I exist.’
Chaplin’s Girl
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In a roaring but strangely squeakily toned mumble of utter nonsensical gibberish, the round manchild asked me something I can only assume was about how my shopping went, to which I could think of no other reply except, "Fine, and you," before I loaded the conveyor belt with my few items that were to be sent frightfully into this employee's clumsily oversized hands.
One Cent Baby
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Berlin academy conducted its transactions first in Latin, next and for many years to come in French, and one of its earliest presidents, a man of special competence, pronounced German to be a noble but frightfully barbarized tongue.
Voltaire
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And they get frightfully cross if you don't pay attention.
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She, too, was in debt; "frightfully," her husband had used the right word;
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
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In all spheres of social, economic and political relationships we are 'frightfully' revolutionary.
ANC Today
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I was so worn out with all their stopping and detaining me, it got to be frightfully hard work emerging from the flood of felicitations. tandem abii ad praetorem; ibi vix requievi: rogo syngraphum, datur mi ilico; dedi Tyndaro: ille abiit domum. inde ilico praevortor domum, postquam id actum est; eo protinus ad fratrem, mei ubi sunt alii captivi.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
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I sat down on the frightfully uncomfy seat and placed the sword on the battered wooden table.
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None of this would be objectionable if these frightfully expensive computer-aided super-spy devices were as efficient at detecting cocaine as they are for arms and ammunition.
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I'm frightfully sorry about the delay.
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Everyone thought that was frightfully romantic!
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I'm frightfully sorry about the noise last night.
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We took her ashore with us -- each holding one arm, for she was frightfully staggery at first -- and made her smuggle our cigarettes for us through the custom-house.
Lalage's Lovers
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He was frightfully puritanical at the time as regards deviance of any kind.
FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
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I've tried to tell her that visible collarbones are considered very attractive nowadays, to which I got a frightfully rhino-like snort from my eavesdropping dad and a pitiful look from my mom.
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They probably think silk shirts are frightfully common.
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