frightfully
Example Sentences
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"He had black crew-cut hair and National Health glasses and was frightfully shy and very poor... I started selling the odd drawing on his behalf for seven or eight pounds."
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
And it is fantasy to try to divorce sports from the times we live in and the events that unfold, sometimes frightfully, beyond the comfortable confines of the stadium and arena.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2025
"All the other people in the class were frightfully posh and they were all shrieking with laughter," Dame Sheila recalled.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2024
That meant if lots of layoffs were happening or if the stock market was tumbling too frightfully, the Fed could cut interest rates down to zero.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
It sucks everything around it out of time and space and into—well, I don’t know, Your Maj, because I was never frightfully good at science, but, you know, the Great Nothing or some such.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
