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a. (alternative spelling of god-awful English)
Usage examples of "gawdawful".
He's not a bad kid, considering he spent his formative years in a gawdawful sorry excuse for a shack up on the ridge, and he's really pretty bright.
She'd been tormented by gawdawful nightmares ever since she got home and fell into bed just as Elvis pointed both arms at the twelve.
Abruptly the smell was so gawdawful that my eyes watered and my stomach convulsed.
The high school I was going to has a program for pregnant girls, but when I began to show, my ma sent me to a gawdawful strict place over in Mississippi.
But his winning smile was the friendliest thing she'd seen in two and a half days and after that miserable, gawdawful interview with Kit Carson .
My own had been bitter, but in that children had not been an issue, I'd been able to walk away with my dignity and the gawdawful crystal pickle dish Estelle had given me as a wedding present.