awfully
[ˈɔflɪ]
Definition:
1. Used as intensifiers.
2. Of a dreadful kind.
3. In a terrible manner.
'awfully' example sentence:
- That would be awfully cold out there without it.
- "No, indeed," replied the twins, "it's awfully difficult to be a twin."
- I'm awfully sorry. you'd better take another taxi.
- It's awfully hot.
- I'm awfully sorry I must have turned the alarm off and gone back to sleep again.
- It's awfully dark in here: put the light on.
- The case is awfully heavy.
- But it's awfully ruthless and cold-blooded for a nutter from the other side.
- The jury's taking an awfully long time.
- It seems an awfully long way to fall.
- I've been waiting for you for an awfully long time.
- "Awfully," the young man answered in a trembling voice.
- He did you awfully well!
- It's awfully dark for 4 o'clock.
- I am not awfully happy with the idea.
- He is awfully fond of jesting.
- It was quite good. But it was awfully long.
- It was awfully hard for Heidi to stop crying when she had once begun, for she cried so seldom.
- They're always beautiful and rich, and awfully scared.
- That's awfully big price to ask someone to pay.
- I am awfully glad that she isn't dead.
- Anne, I'm awfully glad you've come to live at Green Gables.
- It's awfully nice of you to come all this way to see me.
- It's an awfully good story.
- That's an awfully nice way to start spending your money.
- "He did it awfully well," said the crestfallen Rat.
- Catherine had an awfully perverted taste to esteem him so dearly, knowing him so well.
- Awfully hot, isn't it?
- I am awfully sorry that I cannot come to school today.
- It's awfully good of you to find the time to see us.
- Well, it seems like an awfully long ride.
- I am awfully unlucky.
- Oh grandmother, don't the cakes please you awfully?
- Thanks awfully, but I ought to stick by Toad till this trip is ended.
- It was saying, to die will be an awfully big adventure.
- Not quite, but the two sides are awfully close.
- Well, you two have gotten awfully close, haven't you?
- I am awfully sorry.
- "All look your best," Peter warned them; "first impressions are awfully important."
- "It's awfully puzzling," said Tootles, who knew the story by heart.
- The duty on this sort of goods is awfully high.
- Would you like a hand carrying those bags? They look awfully heavy.
- Of course it's awfully fascinating!
- "I like your clothes awfully, old chap," he remarked after some half an hour or so had passed.
- "It's no disgrace to be colored," the black entertainer Bert Williams famously observed early in the century, "but it is awfully inconvenient."
- "She's awfully fond of Wendy," he said to himself.
- They're getting awfully weary of this silly war.
- "It's awfully sad," the first twin said cheerfully.
- Agriculture was awfully neglected in the past.
- These scissors are awfully heavy.
- I'm awfully sorry about that problem the other day.
- August is still an awfully long way away.
- The caramel looks awfully good.
- The post office lost my parcel. it's awfully annoying.