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Meaning of awfully

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  awfully
      adv 1: used as intensifiers; "terribly interesting"; "I'm awful
             sorry" [syn: {terribly}, {awfully}, {awful},
             {frightfully}]
      2: of a dreadful kind; "there was a dreadfully bloody accident
         on the road this morning" [syn: {dreadfully}, {awfully},
         {horribly}]
      3: in a terrible manner; "she sings terribly" [syn: {terribly},
         {atrociously}, {awfully}, {abominably}, {abysmally},
         {rottenly}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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