frightfully

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for frightfully
Adverb
  • Prions are extremely persistent in the environment.
    Jim Robbin, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • To Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles Security was already going to be extremely tight, especially after a truck attack killed 14 people and injured many others in New Orleans' French Quarter on New Year's Day.
    Rachel Treisman, NPR, 7 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • Her story is very similar to what Milla experiences in the show.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Vroom, vroom, baby: All of Chelsea Handler's friends loved one of her exes in particular, and there's a very oddly specific reason why.
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 7 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • Cleaning one's own floors seems like a terribly 20th-century way to spend one's time, and the age of the robo-vac has well and truly dawned over the last few years, with nearly 30% of US homes either using or considering a robot vacuum back in 2022, according to Interpret.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Allen gets another chance to finally get his team past Mahomes’ team, one that isn’t all that terribly far from having made it to seven Super Bowls in a row.
    Mike Lupica, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Jan. 2025
Adverb
  • What’s incredibly surprising is that some of the most outrageously hard-to-believe tall tales included are the ones backed with photographic evidence.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Part comedy, part drama, part horror film, this incredibly accomplished debut announces the arrival of a huge star both in front of and behind the camera.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 1 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • The president, too, acknowledged Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights and negotiated the Abraham Accords.
    Christian Datoc, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Lamination is essentially a perm for the brows and this process is way too harsh for delicate brow hairs.
    Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 5 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • He is highly rated, as is Reis, and they can be regarded as fine long-term acquisitions, but that hardly helps Guardiola now.
    Sam Lee, The Athletic, 3 Feb. 2025
  • His hole-on-one golf balls, however, are not highly regarded.
    Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • The combo of that large, efficient head; the dampening factor of the wood handle; and a nice texture at the base of the grip just felt so damned good, strike after strike.
    Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Still, Moore is pretty damned great — this could almost be her Fly.
    Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2024
Adverb
  • Those questions gave an early indication that the trial was going badly for CNN.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Many of the anti-unification arguments Hitchens faced in the 1980s have aged badly—chief among them the assertion that Athens won’t be an adequate home for them because of instability, pollution, and a lack of infrastructure.
    Ralph Leonard, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
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