adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
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Or she could, if she thought of it in time, say that Derek had always been the most frightful liar.
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Earth gave birth to her last and most frightful offspring, a creature more terrible than any that had gone before.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Blanche thought she was frightful but listened to her breathless monologues with stoic patience.
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Everyone was terrified of him on account of his frightful temper.
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It was so frightful that my daughter Lilya and I stopped travelling by car together.
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Later, during a frightful storm, a princess knocked at the castle door, begging for shelter.
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Oh, Little Kai, it was frightful , and horrid.
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They gazed in bovine surprise at the scarlet-faced visitor, and for one frightful moment Breeze felt that she must flee.
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This is a frightful cautionary tale, well told.