frightfully

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FRIGHTFULLY, adverb 1. Terribly; dreadfully; in a manner to impress terror and alarm; horribly. 2. Very disagreeably; shockingly. She looks frightfully to day.
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