Awfully Definition

awfully
adverb
  1. used as intensifiers; "terribly interesting"; "I'm awful sorry"
  2. of a dreadful kind; "there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning"
  3. in a terrible manner; "she sings terribly"

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