"awfully" in the adverb sense
1. terribly, awfully, awful, frightfully
used as intensifiers
"terribly interesting"
"I'm awful sorry"
2. dreadfully, awfully, horribly
of a dreadful kind
"there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning"
3. terribly, atrociously, awfully, abominably, abysmally, rottenly
in a terrible manner
"she sings terribly"
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