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God-awful
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God-aw·ful
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adjective
(
sometimes lowercase
)
Informal
.
extremely dreadful or shocking:
What a God-awful thing to say!
Origin:
1875–80;
Americanism
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god-awful
adjective
very unpleasant; "hellish weather"; "stop that god-awful racket" [syn:
beastly
]
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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