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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
godawful

"terrible," 1878, from God + awful. The God might be an intensifier or the whole might be from the frequent God's awful (vengeance, judgment, etc.) in religious literature.

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godawful

a. (alternative spelling of god-awful English) alt. (alternative spelling of god-awful English)

Usage examples of "godawful".

For the first time since he had met Katrina, he wanted her to wear those godawful glasses and the baggiest clothes available.

They were snipers, not sluggers, and keeping them well back would also keep her wounded armor away from those godawful lasers.

After a short stroll in the park and an early movierated R for raunchy, some godawful rendition of a worse bestseller, that bound itself somehow in Dan's mind with his real-life situation, so that he kept half-expecting the crab-machine to appear on screenhe bought Wanda burgers and beer at one of the classier drive-ins, after which they moved on to what the newspapers called a swinging singles bar.

Particles aspirated so terribly fine, like almost atomized, so that they hung in the air like the air itself over the cribbed bed as the man expired, cat-yellow eyes wide open and face screwed into the very most godawful rictusized grin of pain, his last thoughts (if any) unknowable.

Timothy Tox, Pennsylvaniad Through July they continue North, thro' swamps, snakes, godawful humidity, thunder-gusts at night, trees so thick that even with thirty axmen, each chain's length seems won with Labor incommensurate, waking each glaucous Dawn into sweat and stillness, to struggle another Day, with no confidence that at the correct Distance, they will pass anywhere near the Tangent Point, much less touch it exactly.

Over in Hal's barn they're cooking up a godawful brew that Forrester says will be mustard gas, but he's not sure how long it takes to finish the reaction.

In all that infernal, godawful self-inspection and tricky finger work, had no more time passed than that?

And don't be fooled by the big sign -- there ain't no seven hills, unless they're advertising their godawful fire ant mounds.

Your godawful place is full of phonograph records, champagne, and old newspapers.

And it would get him out of this godawful town and back into the pool halls of Farberville, where he belonged.

I now draw the curtain on the godawful business of butchering and skinning a sheep with a shingling hatchet.

All he'd really seen was a godawful bundle of shopping bags with various designer names on them, and feet.

On the other hand, the trigger pull started out really godawful, must have been ten pounds when they gave him the new Garand.