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How to pronounce frightfully in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms awful, awfully, terribly

Examples of frightfully

frightfully
When Flo shows up, frightfully close to disheveled, her friend Olive takes her in.
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Console games are frightfully expensive and rarely better than the PC version.
From the forbes.com
Everything in Russia is done at a frightfully slow pace and often not done at all.
From the nznewsuk.co.uk
Heavenly Creatures is frightfully romantic too, and romantically frightening.
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Despite a frightfully seesawing economy, consumers seem poised to pounce on Halloween.
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In creating this action, America has paid a frightfully large price in dehumanization.
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Frightfully delicious Humboldt Fog is a creamy goat cheese with a subtle tangy flavor.
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Carl Crawford, meanwhile, looks frightfully lost, although he did have a double Monday.
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It's a frightfully entertaining evening of energetic dancing and beautiful theatricality.
From the orlandosentinel.com
More examples
  • Terribly: used as intensifiers; "terribly interesting"; "I'm awful sorry"
  • (frightful) atrocious: provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"
  • (frightful) extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact; "in a frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money"
  • (Frightful (comics)) Synopses of Ultimate Fantastic Four storylines and graphic novels. The first three story lines have been republished as graphic novels, and the fourth and fifth storylines have been completed in magazine form.
  • (frightful) espantoso; horrible; terrible
  • Very: e.g., He's frightfully handsome!