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Awfully   /ˈɑfli/  /ˈɔfəli/   Listen
adverb
Awfully  adv.  
1.
In an awful manner; in a manner to fill with terror or awe; fearfully; reverently.
2.
Very; excessively. (Slang)





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"Awfully" Quotes from Famous Books



... goodness! she is game!" Cora thought, and aloud she went on, "Cecilia isn't a bad sort—a shocking snob, as all of us are who are not the real thing and want to be—like your own common pushers over here. We used to laugh at her awfully when she first came from Pittsburgh and tried to cut in before she married my cousin. Poor old Vin! He was crazy about her." Then she went on reflectively, as Halcyone did not answer. "We often think ...
— Halcyone • Elinor Glyn
... procession was passing Hill Street. I noticed the girl bite her lip; she was as restless as her horse. 'Doctor,' she says, hesitating just the same way the second time, 'do you think people would think it awfully strange if I—rode ...
— Laramie Holds the Range • Frank H. Spearman
... brothers used to kick and cuff him, his father was awfully unkind to him, he never had a day's peace till he went to school, and after he went to school he never came back for years and years and years, till Catherine was fifteen. What could have made ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... 'Thanks awfully, old man,' he said. 'It's a bit premature, but I fancy it's going to be all right. Come along in here, and I'll ...
— The Man with Two Left Feet - and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse
... positions because they cannot entirely overcome the handicap of slipshod habits formed early in life, habits of inaccuracy, of slovenliness, of skipping difficult problems in school, of slurring their work, shirking, or half doing it. "Oh, that's good enough, what's the use of being so awfully particular?" has been the beginning of a life-long handicap in ...
— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden


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