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God-awful

[ god-aw-fuhl ]

adjective

(sometimes lowercase)
  1. extremely dreadful or shocking:

    a God-awful thing to say!



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Word History and Origins

Origin of God-awful1

1875–80; Americanism
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President Joe Biden said Russian leader Vladimir Putin was in "tough shape", adding that "it's really important that he not have any breathing room to continue to do the god-awful things he continues to do."

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Put aside the alarming debate performance, the concerning polls and the god-awful vibes: The reason Democrats are still in disarray over the viability of President Joe Biden’s candidacy is because President Joe Biden keeps demonstrating, in each and every public appearance, that the concerns about his fitness and ability to campaign vigorously for the next four months — to say nothing of governing for another four years — are devastatingly valid.

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Recalled West in his book: “During one particularly hard stretch, we ate the same soup out of the same pot for six days until I told my mother I simply couldn’t do it any longer. Well, let me tell you, I took the most god-awful beating that day from my father and it turned me into a tough, nasty kid and it turned me even more inward than I already was.”

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May paused for a brief moment in wonder, then shook her head, smiled at Jack, and jumped straight into the hole he’d just cut, even as a god-awful howling tore up through the grate from the room below.

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“The jury has found me in part at fault for this God-awful tragedy but that doesn’t make me a monster, that makes me human.”

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Godavari“God Bless America”