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HORRIBLY

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 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a dreadful kind

Example:

there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning

Synonyms:

awfully; dreadfully; horribly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

horrible (provoking horror)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The rattle and bang of the frying-pan was grating horribly on my nerves.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Oh! then she began to howl quite horribly, but Gretel ran away and the godless witch was miserably burnt to death.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

First, as being the means of bringing persons of obscure birth into undue distinction, and raising men to honours which their fathers and grandfathers never dreamt of; and secondly, as it cuts up a man's youth and vigour most horribly; a sailor grows old sooner than any other man.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The place was horribly haunted by clouds of mosquitoes and every form of flying pest, so we were glad to find solid ground again and to make a circuit among the trees, which enabled us to outflank this pestilent morass, which droned like an organ in the distance, so loud was it with insect life.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And it takes a long time to accustom Jip to his new residence, after we have bought it; whenever he goes in or out, he makes all the little bells ring, and is horribly frightened.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I know it's so, for I can't read this stuff in sober earnest without being horribly ashamed of it, and what should I do if they were seen at home or Mr. Bhaer got hold of them?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I soon discovered that both of them were perfect strangers to the rest of the company, and had never seen or heard of them before; and I had a whisper from a ghost who shall be nameless, that these commentators always kept in the most distant quarters from their principals, in the lower world, through a consciousness of shame and guilt, because they had so horribly misrepresented the meaning of those authors to posterity.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He lay on his back, his knees drawn up, and his mouth horribly open.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

More bad dreams. I wish I could remember them. This morning I am horribly weak.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was very dark, and the wind howled horribly around her, but Dorothy found she was riding quite easily.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)