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Meanings of god-awful in English

Very unpleasant.

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Examples for "beastly"
Examples for "beastly"
1
It's a beastly night.' But Castle followed him into the cold drizzle.
The Human Factor
2
The beastly hypercar is now the most expensive new automobile ever manufactured.
The South African
3
I shall find somewhere to shelter until this beastly spell is over.
The Magicians of Caprona
4
Jungle fever, my dear fellow, jungle fever; caught in that beastly tiger-hunt.
Mr. Isaacs, A Tale of Modern India
5
Put that beastly thing in the drawer while I tell you, then.
Driftwood Spars / The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Cert...
1
Others in the cutter had noted the incident of the hellish fight.
Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef
2
He heard them coming, them with their hellish questions and clicking claws.
The drawing of the three
3
I passed a hellish night, and the following morning, I told Dad.
True compass: a memoir
4
Qasr-el-Aini was almost a hellish experience, with cars honking the whole time.
The Guardian
5
He knew what a hellish experience it was to end a marriage.
Firewall
Usage of god-awful in English
1
Let's say we didn't get stuck in those god-awful camps-no ,justlisten.
The Darkest Minds
2
Mercy thought it must be god-awful uncomfortable, but he didn't cry out.
Dreadnought
3
And then to wake up to that god-awful music over the loudspeakers.
The soul catcher
4
He'll select some god-awful place for all of us to die in.
White Hunter, Black Heart
5
In layman's terms, it was just a god-awful, horrifying, and disgusting mess.
Don't blink
6
Something really god-awful must have happened to him at some point.
Soon I will be invincible
7
Who knew what god-awful thing might come crawling out of there?
Wastelands
8
It's getting god-awful cold, anyhow, and I've got chores to do.
Judith of the Godless Valley
9
There was a god-awful choir, and then a jazz ensemble that had no swing.
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
10
The sheriff and another man, dressed in a god-awful yellow-and-blue-plaid sportscoat, had approached him.
Stinger
11
Then we took the kids to see some god-awful movie.
For whom the minivan rolls: an aaron tucker mystery
12
When Irons was gone, Heat shifted in the god-awful molded seat to face Rook.
Raging Heat
13
Her face was god-awful pale, but her eyes weren't fogged over and hazed out.
White night
14
Some have been pretty good, or partly good, some god-awful; one is just about perfect.
The new yorker
15
That's all either of them are capable of, thanks to those god-awful parents of theirs.
Patrick's destiny
16
It would have been a god-awful way to go.
The Slab
God-awful through the time