frightfully
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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Frightfully decent chap, he takes a bullet for her, too: "Well, I'm very glad I got in the way!"
From The Guardian • Apr. 12, 2010
Frightfully sorry, blushed Dorothy, but please would he give it back: she had only meant him to give the $60,000 volume his blessing.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Frightfully good tailor. Never believe it to see me now," Mike said.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
"Frightfully sorry, Pitt, old man," he whispered, feverishly.
From The Intrusion of Jimmy by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
Hot shall be to many That awful flame, when every man, Unblemished or sinful, his soul in his body, From the depths of his grave seeks the doom of God, 525 Frightfully afraid.
From Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose by Various
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