God-awful

[god-aw-fuhl]

adjective

(sometimes lowercase)

1. extremely dreadful or shocking.

   What a God-awful thing to say!

Word History and Origins

Origin of God-awful¹

1875–80;

Example Sentences

Carrie’s final “revelation” that a woman doesn’t need a man to be happy would have had a much more meaningful resonance if Carrie had been allowed to explore her grief, fear, frustration and hope beyond a few platitude-laden conversations and that god-awful novel.

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Sure, there are some great posters on the platform fighting the good fight, but Bluesky’s preservation of Obama-era liberalism has brought with it some of the coalition’s most unsavory tendencies: the exasperating pedantry, the god-awful reaction GIFs, the ridiculous instinct to audit the ideological purity of every one of its users.

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President Joe Biden said Russian leader Vladimir Putin was in "tough shape", adding that "it's really important that he not have any breathing room to continue to do the god-awful things he continues to do."

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Put aside the alarming debate performance, the concerning polls and the god-awful vibes: The reason Democrats are still in disarray over the viability of President Joe Biden’s candidacy is because President Joe Biden keeps demonstrating, in each and every public appearance, that the concerns about his fitness and ability to campaign vigorously for the next four months — to say nothing of governing for another four years — are devastatingly valid.

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Recalled West in his book: “During one particularly hard stretch, we ate the same soup out of the same pot for six days until I told my mother I simply couldn’t do it any longer. Well, let me tell you, I took the most god-awful beating that day from my father and it turned me into a tough, nasty kid and it turned me even more inward than I already was.”

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