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Meanings of terribly in English
Portuguese
abissalmente Portuguese
terrivelmente Synonyms
Examples for "awfully"
Examples for "awfully"
1
A second later, he opened it again and said, I'm awfully sorry.
2
A year was an awfully long time to go without a man.
3
That's an awfully nice offer, Eadric, but I'm afraid it wouldn't work.
4
You're awfully young and you don't know my girl very well yet.
5
But it was awfully dangerous of you to risk compromising our mission.
1
The rocks at the north end of the beach are abominably slippery.
2
The iron was deeply rusted and the place itself smelled abominably stale.
3
I ought never to have given way; we were both abominably selfish.
4
In a great deal of my talk with D. I posed abominably.
5
It was the right thing to do, and it was done abominably.
1
In the note-book I handed him he wrote in atrociously spelled Spanish:
2
He pulled out packet after packet of atrociously colored stationary... View Article
3
They had been atrociously treated by the natives, and had suffered much.
4
He echoed Goldsmith and a whole line of British poets-echoedthem atrociously.
5
Tell Pole as you go by that last mutton was atrociously tough.
1
It's no secret that diversity in the tech sector is abysmally low.
2
Despite this, equal participation of women in decision-making forums remains abysmally low.
3
The truth of it was that Charles was abysmally timid of girls.
4
However, when it comes to the live export of animals, we fail abysmally.
5
In the case of Mid-Staffs Hospital, hundreds were treated abysmally and some died.
1
So far as hiding one's intentions, it's a most rottenly immoral game.
2
I am sure she has had a rottenly unhappy life.
3
Life had treated her rottenly, but she never complained.
4
The Yucca it contained broke rottenly, its trunk opening to show a center of soggy pulp.
5
I know I've behaved rottenly to you since you've been back, but the first step's always so difficult.
Usage of terribly in English
1
Of course she wanted his approval, of course; she wanted it terribly.
2
It didn't seem terribly important to answer that right now, perhaps later.
3
The problem is that the virus lurks for a terribly long time.
4
Solving this problem is not impossible, but neither is it terribly practical.
5
As the financial crisis deepened, events confirmed Minerva's prophecies all too terribly.
6
The reasons are not terribly sophisticated and mostly work for the young.
7
Brown says: When we had violence here, women and children suffered terribly.
8
No sense in waking him just yet; he'd been out terribly late.
9
Eight months before this crisis, a routine day had gone terribly awry.
10
I'm terribly sorry to be the one to bear this particular news.
11
Mr Key said he could not imagine they would be terribly happy.
12
A great deal of it involves fucking terribly unpleasant people, of course.
13
They looked terribly lonely, so I quickly gave them a good home.
14
A letter writer to this paper described her remarks as terribly unfair.
15
In Rosalyn's case, we figure something went terribly wrong in her childhood.
16
It isn't a terribly difficult question, but still students will make mistakes.
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