Adjective : A frightful howl woke us. ,The storm did frightful damage. ,We had a frightful time. ,That actor is very talented but a frightful ham. From Dictionary.com.
She, too, was in debt; "frightfully," her husband had used the right word. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
'frightfully' something or other during the evening. From Wordnik.com. [The Head of the House of Coombe] Reference
"In all spheres of social, economic and political relationships we are 'frightfully' revolutionary. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
The diet described must be frightfully monotonous. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
It all seems like a romance, only so frightfully real. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
"It must be frightfully hard to go backward like that!". From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
The cat jumped in her face and scratched her frightfully. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
Now the Water grew warm, hot, hotter, frightfully hot; the little. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference
His shoulder pained him frightfully from the cut inflicted by Mata. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
His ankle hurt him frightfully, and his back, and his shoulder, too. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
"But it makes it frightfully difficult for me supposing I had to ----". From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
But it has a major drawback: It's frightfully expensive, at least for now. From Wordnik.com. [A Clean Coal Confrontation] Reference
Then she gave a shriek which sounded frightfully intense as it echoed around. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
"It worried me frightfully at the time," he said; "but it doesn't matter now.". From Wordnik.com. [Love at Paddington] Reference
The meeting with her had become one of the frightfully unvarying things of his day. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
His left leg was frightfully painful; but he thought he could manage to walk with it. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The news caused general concern throughout the house, and Ethne was frightfully upset. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
Miss Rose Young, one of the young ladies in the hall, was frightfully cut and bruised. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
Pharisee -- something frightfully close and similar and yet an everlasting opposite. '. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
I saw them in the moonlight, armed with rifles and tomahawks, and frightfully painted. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
His body was frightfully mangled and torn, his scull fractured, and all his limbs broken. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
But mother worried so frightfully whenever I suggested the idea that I had to give it up. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
He wrote letter after letter pointing out how frightfully backward we were in marksmanship. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
They blame them severely for having maintained such a frightfully dangerous institution there. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
Immediately the poor monster began to sigh, and howl so frightfully, that the whole palace echoed. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk] Reference
But no -- they are excellent chaps in most respects, but frightfully stuffy about loans and gifts. From Wordnik.com. [David and the Phoenix] Reference
"My guards! my guards!" cried the King, his eyes rolling wildly, his features frightfully convulsed. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
I dare say you won't believe it -- you are so unsympathetic -- but I was frightfully ill last night. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
Television has been aswarm with ads she considers frightfully unfair criticisms of her health care plan. From Wordnik.com. [Came The Revolution...] Reference
Some went by train and others marched, as the line -- a single one -- was frightfully congested with traffic. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
Mrs. Maynard is a widow, and if she weren't so frightfully rich, Monkshaven would be perennially shocked at her. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
"I wonder," the Major remarked, "that you ever came back once you got there, since you were so frightfully keen.". From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
The creature's back was lacerated frightfully and without any doubt whatsoever, it was being beaten to death by its antagonist. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
"I am frightfully pale-just a little, Ernest; you know what I told you," and she turned her head, presenting her right eye to me. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
At daybreak he saw an ogress coming, frightfully tall and stout, who cried: "Snow-white-fire-red, lower your tresses for me to climb up!". From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
I have found a friend here, too, Mr. Thode, a poor woman who is frightfully maimed from saving my life in the fire which killed my mother. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
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