be awful
Frequency: 8.5150.1 per million words
Describes a state of being terrible or very bad.
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- The traffic during rush hour is awful.
- The weather at the beach yesterday was awful; it rained all day.
- My experience with their customer service has been awful from the start.
- If we don't prepare, the consequences will be awful.
- I imagine it must be awful to lose your home in a fire.
- Honestly, the ending of that movie is just awful.
- He told me the pain in his tooth was awful before he went to the dentist.
- The conditions in that prison are said to be awful.
- It's a shame because the food used to be good, but now it tends to be awful.
- I'm sorry I was so quiet; my headache was absolutely awful.