frightfully

Example Sentences

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Perhaps one could argue that this kind of frightfully subdued blockbuster is a result of audiences being confused about what they want.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2025

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

He looks frightfully self-conscious, not so much like a man wearing uncomfortable wool or cotton but one who realizes he’s wearing the emperor’s clothes.

From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 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