To an extreme degree

Usage examples of awfully.

It would be awfully difficult for Gore to catch up to Bush before December 12unless a court disqualified enough Bush overseas absentee votes.

Then calling on the name of Allah, he gave a last keen cunning sweep with the blade, and following that, the earth awfully quaked and groaned, as if speaking in the abysmal tongue the Mastery of the Event to all men.

The wind that had just screamed a thousand death-screams, was now awfully dumb, albeit Farina could feel it lifting hood and hair.

Last time I was there she used to let out six Egyptian jerboas in the drawing-room every evening after dinner, awfully jolly little beggars, like miniature kangaroos.

Fortunately your awfully well funded Mirabilis Agency came along and tempted me to talk a little.

Wracker sat on the edge of the desk and stared at the physicist for what seemed to Pissant to be an awfully long time.

As we drove out of the town the houses became fewer and the trees denser, with mosques here and there among them, and in a few minutes we were in the great dark forest of cocoa, betel, and sago palms, awfully solemn and oppressive in the hot stillness of the evening.

It looked awfully small, and Sora estimated that it was several kilometers away.

It did not matter to most Lyrians that his two ministers loathed each other, and that Bardel was just not awfully bright.

Confronted on the one hand with a number of persons bent on reporting the incident to the Deputy-Ranger, and on the other by a delinquent mongrel owned by a Young Person unattended by a footman, or a maid, they saw their duty clear before them: Lufra, the elder of the two awfully told Frederica, must be handed over to them, to be kept in custody until a magistrate should pronounce his fate.

And then, on top of all that, the men who pulled off this switcheroo would have had to be awfully damn sure than anyone and everyone involved in the conspiracy was completely reliable and that no one would spill.

Not awfully devout, but I do attend Congregationalist services most Sundays.

The Diamondbacks controlled a lot of votes, and you could find people who claimed that the disturbances had come at an awfully convenient time for the Gorton administration.

It frets me so awfully to see you lingering here when baby wants her comforts.

But how about the pucker along your spine, and the awfully foolish, grinny feeling around your cheek-bones?