You use ~ to emphasize that a situation or quality is extremely bad.
Both of them died in ~ poverty...
This scheme was an ~ failure.
= total
ADJ: usu ADJ n emphasis
~ly
Both have failed ~ly.
ADV
You use ~ to emphasize that a situation or quality is extremely bad.
Both of them died in ~ poverty...
This scheme was an ~ failure.
= total
ADJ: usu ADJ n emphasis
~ly
Both have failed ~ly.
ADV
Collins COBUILD. Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) . 2012