horribly

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ADJ.

all, alone, failed, hard, lonesome, messy, sick, wounded

VERB + HORRIBLY

confess, displayed, fell, going, look, made, making, plan

HORRIBLY + NOUN

paintings, tom

PREP.

with

ADV.

away, quite, then

Definitions

adv

1

In a horrible way; very badly.

The beginning art students displayed their horribly executed paintings with hopeful faces.

Looking back at the 2020s from our vantage point in 2030, the first great event was the complete destruction of Donald Trump’s Republican Party. As the former Republican consultant Mike Murphy had noticed, there were roughly 300 state and federal elections during the Trump years and Republicans did horribly in most of them.

2

To an extreme degree or extent.

Then everything went horribly wrong.

The man was horribly nice, yet she still wouldn't marry him.

3

With a very bad effect.

Horribly, as he was dying, his eyes reddened.

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adverb — of a dreadful kind

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Idioms & Phrases

go horribly right

To produce a technically correct result, but with highly undesirable consequences.

I describe it as a stunt that went horribly right because it was designed to fail, in the sense that Chas was going to be the comic relief, to be deployed when we got stopped.

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The beginning art students displayed their horribly executed paintings with hopeful faces.

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Looking back at the 2020s from our vantage point in 2030, the first great event was the complete destruction of Donald Trump’s Republican Party. As the former Republican consultant Mike Murphy had not

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Then everything went horribly wrong.

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04

During his illness, he fell away horribly.

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05

Tom failed horribly.

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My tooth is making me suffer horribly.

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go horribly right

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