fearfully
Britishadverb
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in a fearful manner
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(intensifier)
you're fearfully kind
Example Sentences
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Fearfully sticking to rules may give the appearance of avoiding problems but only ends up hurting the service that the Vatican Curia is called to give the church, he said.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2023
"Fearfully short on laughs" is how he put it.
From The Guardian • Aug. 13, 2010
Fearfully Union Club members tiptoed about in the dark.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fearfully, madly she moves to crazy cross-grained rhythms, falls dead finally across a human pyre built hastily that her body may not touch the sacred soil.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fearfully, she felt her way through the unfamiliar rooms in her nightgown and bare feet.
From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen
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