frightfully
IPA: frˈaɪtfʌɫi
adverb
- In a frightful manner.
- Very, extremely.
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Examples of "frightfully" in Sentences
- 'frightfully' something or other during the evening.
- She, too, was in debt; "frightfully," her husband had used the right word;
- "In all spheres of social, economic and political relationships we are 'frightfully' revolutionary.
- Tudor, having pulled through the fever and started to mend, was still frightfully weak and very much starved.
- Hardly deserving of 'the most trusted man in America' moniker either; history has shown that he was frightfully deceitful.
- The latter is especially inviting, as Dark Horse Comics released three frightfully king-sized collections in time for All Hallow's Eve.
- I'm afraid France took engravings and etchings, while it was a frightfully disappointing year for reliefs, with no gold medal awarded at all.
- Their outlook towards a venomous German attempt to do something "frightfully" nasty, is very similar to a large and powerful nurse dealing with a fractious child -- sort of: "Now, then, Master Frankie, you mustn't kick and scream like that."
- Lots of them, of course, were frightfully swell (Betty annexed "frightfully" at school, by the by) and had all sorts of clothes; but Betty was perfectly content with her modest outfit, and none of the other girls seemed to mind how she dressed.
- She, too, was in debt; "frightfully" her husband had used the right word; "hopelessly" so far as satisfying her creditors, even out of the large allowance Mr. Ferrars made her; and still she had not the courage voluntarily to tell the truth, which yet she knew must burst upon him ere long.
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