Word Finder - terribly

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So as to cause terror or awe.

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The lion roared terribly.

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Very; extremely.

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He's terribly busy and you really shouldn't bother him.

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Very badly.

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She took part in the karaoke, but sang terribly.

He'd be terribly upset.

She was terribly close to him.

It makes me feel terribly guilty, enjoying myself with you.

Would you mind terribly if he joined us tonight?

But she was just as terribly close to him.

We were terribly absurd.

The fighting in Telnitz was perhaps the hardest of the whole battle, but the inevitable retreat, every part of which was now under the fire of the French on the plateau, was terribly costly.

The sight of her father, the terribly wild cries of her mother that she heard through the door, made her immediately forget herself and her own grief.

The Turkana country west of Lake Rudolf has been of late years terribly arid.

But, when I took up Algebra, I had a harder time still--I was terribly handicapped by my imperfect knowledge of the notation.

The conspiracies were repeatedly betrayed and the guilty parties terribly punished.

But the assembly did its part in assisting General Braddock to outfit; and after Braddock's defeat all western Pennsylvania suffered terribly from Indian attacks.

In the war which preceded this peace (generally known as the Thirty Years' War) Alsace had been so terribly devastated by the Swedes and the French that the German emperor found himself unable to hold it.

That's up to other people, not us, but I can tell you we'll miss you terribly and we'd love to have you stay a part of our family.

The Hottentots have been terribly demoralized, and even partially destroyed by it in the western province.

Bhaunagar suffered terribly from the famine of 1899-1900.

In 1527 he sailed from Cuba with about 600 men (soon reduced to less than 400), landed (early in 1528) probably at the present site of Pensacola, and for six months remained in the country, he and his men suffering terribly from exposure, hunger and fierce Indian attacks.

The French meanwhile had occupied Vionville and Flavigny, and other troops were moving down the slopes from Rezonville to their support, but the united onset of this whole German division overbore all resistance, and the French began to retire eastward, suffering terribly from the shell fire of the Prussian batteries.

In the summer of 1679 the king suddenly fell ill, and the dangers of a disputed succession became terribly apparent.

She did not know how it was that within five minutes she had come to feel herself terribly near to this man.

The taste was not terribly good or bad, but definitely there.

Frequently it was terribly overcrowded (by as many as 1200 prisoners at a time), the inmates often suffered great privations, and many died or were physically disabled for the remainder of their lives.

In 1883 foot-and-mouth disease was terribly rampant amongst the herds and flocks of Great Britain, and was far more prevalent than it has ever been since.

In the West Indies "the only horned cattle fit for work are those which have a good deal of black in them; the white are terribly tormented by the insects and they are weak and sluggish in proportion to the black."

When two people quarrel they are always both in fault, and one's own guilt suddenly becomes terribly serious when the other is no longer alive.

After his release Wakefield seemed disposed for a while to turn his attention to social questions at home, and produced a tract on the Punishment of Death, with a terribly graphic picture of the condemned sermon in Newgate, and another on incendiarism in the rural districts, with an equally powerful exhibition of the degraded condition of the agricultural labourer.

After his trial period went terribly wrong, he has proven himself to be potitically inept.

This district suffered terribly in the famine of 1847, and hundreds of victims were buried in pits in the graveyard adjoining the ruined Cistercian cell of Abbeystrowry, a mile west of the town.

As a wife she was wholly admirable; she had to entertain a man who would not be amused, and had to submit to that terribly strict court etiquette of absolute obedience to the king's inclination, which Saint-Simon so vividly describes, and yet be always cheerful and never complain of weariness or ill-health.

At the very beginning of the surgery, the operation went terribly wrong.

Either she got extra hot mild curry or she isn't terribly immune to hot spices.

Like the Episode I commentary this makes for interesting, if not terribly exciting listening.

He had twice experienced that terribly tormenting fear of death--the end--but now he no longer understood that fear.

They aren't terribly common, but they are nearly intoxicating to look at.

In any case, you may have guessed, but yes, we're in Roswell's own Area 51 for this assignment, because wah-nah-nah something has gone terribly wrong.

It was strange, but she missed him terribly.

The retirement was terribly costly, and but for the steadiness of Lannes the French must have been driven into the Danube, for the archduke's last effort to break down their resistance was made with the utmost fury.

Italy was recovered for the empire, but it was an Italy terribly impoverished and depopulated, whose possession carried little strength with it.

This seems an unlikely limitation, throwing an impossible amount of work upon the crew, and leaving each ship terribly weak supposing a naval battle had to be undertaken - as with some rival viking fleet, even before any Christian nation possessed a fleet.

Deceased had his skull fractured and was otherwise terribly bruised.

This is a terribly short-sighted solution, notwithstanding the problem of radioactive waste disposal.

Many POWs did not survive their imprisonment or emerged from incarceration in a terribly emaciated state.

I no longer felt bored or stuck, I felt terribly excited.

The railroad had just been built, and the animals seemed terribly frightened at the cars.

Healthy lunches in boxes The major problem with lunch boxes is that they get terribly repetitive.

It is terribly wasteful to have a television on serving as a clock.

We were upstairs on wooden benches which was not terribly comfortable or atmospheric.

The body of a human being is not terribly aerodynamic.

After all, the cat seems terribly attached to its masters.

Using an eye shadow color that doesn't clash terribly with your outfit, shade the upper eye lids.