something awful

Adverb

Meaning

something awful

(degree, colloquial, idiomatic) Intensely or extremely; badly; in the worst way.
He wants to get out of there something awful, but he just doesn't have the money.

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And after writing this I'm craving it something awful. Source: Internet

She and Dan fell in love with the carriage house and “couldn’t bare the idea that someone else might do something awful to it.” Source: Internet

Practically every day for the last three and a half years, Trump’s done something awful. Source: Internet

But in this episode, we discover something awful going on behind the scenes. Source: Internet

I’ve used that example in the years since, that when something awful happens, I get that the perpetrator has to be held to account, but after that’s happened, there must be space for redemption for everyone. Source: Internet

Sometimes the email claims that something awful will happen to the sender (or a third party), as in "The sum of $30,000,000 is going to go to the Government unless you help me transfer it to your bank account." Source: Internet

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