horribly
Britishadverb
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in a horrible manner
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(intensifier)
I'm horribly bored
Example Sentences
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Oren Brown, 27, usually works in a dedicated office room but says his terraced house in County Durham is "horribly stifling upstairs".
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Read my past op-ed: The price Americans pay for medicine has gotten horribly out of control.
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026
That is the way that money is generated on a tour, because the overhead of touring is just horribly expensive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
Horrible people acting horribly is always entertaining, to a point—the point being when the viewer recognizes he has become a voyeur.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
It almost didn’t matter that Jessica Feeney, the horribly burned girl, was sitting one seat away from me at the head of row two.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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