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Adverb
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Had something gone terribly, terribly wrong?—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 Mar. 2026 -
Something is terribly wrong in Chicago.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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To my right, the lady abused me horribly and then jumped on the bandwagon and acted like nothing happened.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
26 Mar. 2026
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The game went horribly wrong from the start as Bay FC had no answers for Icelandic forward Sveindís Jónsdóttir, who scored two goals and had an assist in front of 10,299 fans.—
Harold Gutmann,
Mercury News,
22 Mar. 2026
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So far, that’s an awfully good value on return for a fourth-round pick, especially one who just turned 23.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
21 Mar. 2026
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The classic bikini fairing harks back to the original café racer's front end, surrounding a pair of awfully low-slung clip-on handlebars and dual electronic clocks behind a compact visor.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
6 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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More than anything, this documentary is dreadfully dull.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
11 Mar. 2026
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That’s another company with a stock that acts dreadfully.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
25 Jan. 2026
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Davis did himself no favors with anyone with that performance, which anyone with an extensive TV background (which Davis has) should have known would play poorly on a nationwide scale.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
25 Mar. 2026
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The camp is isolated and poorly resourced, and its traditions—including its conception of gender roles—can be painfully rigid.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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Within the first few pages, our forty-five-year-old narrator, a man addicted to his phone a normal amount (which is to say, disastrously), drops his phone just after FaceTiming his ten-year-old daughter.—
Hannah Gold,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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Guys can be disastrously tough to shop for, but the best gift ideas for men don’t have to involve a brainteaser.—
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
23 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Reports on abysmally low rates of recycling for milk cartons and polystyrene had been widely shared even before that.—
Susanne Rust
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2026
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Despite the robotic-like confidence coming from the Kremlin’s top policymakers and propagandists, the Russian army’s territorial gains over the last year have been abysmally small.—
Daniel DePetris,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Friendships fraying, puberty unevenly invading our bodies in ways both private and horrifically public.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
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The mother of a girl who was horrifically wounded in a school shooting in Canada in February is suing OpenAI for not warning police about the killer, Jesse Van Rootselaar, according to reports.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
11 Mar. 2026
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“Rottenly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rottenly. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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