adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
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She's awfully good about popping in to see her.
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Though Dad is awfully good at growing green things, the Little Sprouts pine for something sweeter.
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But Cynthia and Basil are awfully good sorts.
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The old stare-down between them was over, but it had felt awfully good to Glover.
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It sounds awfully good for other reasons too.
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Whether they liked him or not, Johnson was an awfully good reflection on them.
hard
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It's awfully hard to get information about registered nursing homes.
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And yet when you are first starting out as an entrepreneur, a detour is awfully hard to resist.
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My heart did beat awfully hard .
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He had to push awfully hard to come back from his injuries, and that is just part of him now.
long
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She also turned out to be the last close friend I had for an awfully long time.
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What we do know is that geological time is awfully long .
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Hon. Members on both sides have argued that the processing of applications takes an awfully long time.
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A week can be an awfully long time in political journalism.
nice
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She's the Vicar's wife, and awfully nice .
■ VERB
look
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You look awfully peaky and you've hardly eaten a thing.
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Even the most cursory glance showed me the crowd did look awfully grand.
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You look awfully - awfully - doesn't she, George?
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He just patted his pocket and grinned, looking awfully smug and pleased with himself.
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I thought you looked awfully young.
seem
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The once top-rated Cosby Show suddenly seemed awfully distant in time.
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For psychic sons of Gary Cooper, these dudes seem awfully affected.
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I pass by the house now and then but it doesn't seem awfully real to me yet.
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You seem awfully cheerful, Cyril.
sound
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That sounded awfully complex, and long.
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It sounds awfully good for other reasons too.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It's awfully noisy. Can we close the door?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He had to push awfully hard to come back from his injuries, and that is just part of him now.
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Once I was outside, I suddenly felt awfully tired.
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She also turned out to be the last close friend I had for an awfully long time.
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She felt sick too, awfully , awfully sick.
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The once top-rated Cosby Show suddenly seemed awfully distant in time.
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The result is impressive but awfully stern and austere.