frightfully

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He wanted you--'frightfully'--all the time.

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  1. In a frightful manner; dreadfully; terribly. Then to her glass; and, “Betty, pray, Don't I look frightfully to-day?” Swift, Lady's Journal.
  2. Intolerably; shockingly; hideously; exceedingly. [Hyperbolic] They [the Lapps] are frightfully pious and commonplace. B. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 136.

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  • The kitten squalled frightfully, and Babs kept on calling it 'poor, pretty darling.' —  A Young Mutineer
  • It was a thousand pities that he should squint so frightfully, as in all other respects he was a good-looking man. —  Miss Mackenzie
  • You know the sort of way a sheep looks Woolly Yes, frightfully, and worse. —  Lalage's Lovers
  • "The ship is rolling frightfully, and Lieutenant Hamilton has said enough to assure us that Captain Shadburn is alarmed, even apprehensive Perhaps I am too much of an optimist, but I stick to my statement that while we are in some danger--any fool can see that--we are by no means lost," said Hugh, looking at Gregory when he used the word fool As long as the engine and steering apparatus hold together the crew of the ship can pull her through," said Veath. —  Nedra
  • I am willing instantly to consent that my daughter shall become your nephew's wife; but I solemnly declare that I am poor,--frightfully poor Come, come!" —  The Poor Gentleman
 

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