The Collaborative International Dictionary
Horribly \Hor"ri*bly\, adv. In a manner to excite horror; dreadfully; terribly.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
adv. 1 (context manner English) In a horrible way; very badly. 2 (context degree often modifying a negative adverb or adjective English) To an extreme degree or extent. 3 (context evaluative English) With a very bad effect.
WordNet
adv. of a dreadful kind; "there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning" [syn: dreadfully, awfully]
Usage examples of "horribly".
Horribly the great blizzard, large as the sky, bent over it and scoured with an enormous invisible cloth, round and round on the paper-thin roof, till a hole wore through and squealing, chuckling, laughing a deep Ha!
Against the softness and luxury the killer looked like a skull at a feast: tall, horribly emaciated, eyes smoldering in the blotched skin of his face.
It looked horribly, incredibly, unthinkably as though Burian Klimus had found a way to bring just such new evidence to light.
It would be horribly wrinkled, even now, and she hated to be buttoned into it.
The Mineral Exploiters had destroyed each other in a horribly embarrassing debacle.
I demonstrated all too lamentably my lack of masterliness and found myself most horribly insulted and abused.
The priest stammered over the Latin words and mispronounced them horribly.
The reports are horribly confused and contradictory but have responded to multivariate synthesis.
A huge muttony fist smashed squarely on his nose and mouth: he butted, cursed, amid a pin-wheel aura of exploding rockets: the fist smashed hard again below one eye: the boy screamed like a wounded animal and cursing horribly all the time began to use his head as a battering ram, butting again and again at the fat red faces.
But at the time it was all horribly real, and nothing can ever efface the memory of those nighted crypts, those titan arcades, and those half-formed shapes of hell that strode gigantically in silence holding half-eaten things whose still surviving portions screamed for mercy or laughed with madness.
Morand was afraid, horribly afraid, that the penetralia mentis awful had escaped and was rampant.
This whole world should be scorched and forgotten, a sick experiment that went horribly wrong.
Her own people killed her, horribly, for betraying the secretor so the story goes.
Then Wasp understood what was so horribly familiar about that shaggily bearded apparition.
They were fearsome fighters, but their lack of armour made them horribly vulnerable to arrows and so they were placed at the rear and the leading ranks of the three sheltrons were filled by men-at-arms and pikemen.