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dreadfully

[dred-fuh-lee]

dread·ful·ly

[dred-fuh-lee]
adverb
1.
in a dreadful way: The pain has increased dreadfully.
2.
very; extremely: Sorry to be so dreadfully late.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English. See dreadful, -ly
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Dreadfully is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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dreadfully (ˈdrɛdfʊlɪ)
 
adv
1.  in a shocking, or disagreeable manner
2.  (intensifier): you're dreadfully kind

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