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# horribly

«horribly» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a horrible way; very badly or unpleasantly** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (more horribly, most horribly)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In a horrible way; very badly or unpleasantly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horribly/#m1)

2) Very much; extremely, as in «horribly afraid». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horribly/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a character is horribly frightened or grieved; in lessons it describes something very unpleasant

### examples

- The dog smelled horribly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horribly/#x1)
- The princess was horribly frightened by the noise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horribly/#x2)
- The cake tasted horribly sour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horribly/#x3)
- He was horribly grieved when his dog died. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horribly/#x4)
- The bridge was horribly high. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horribly/#x5)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye exceeding amazed, saith the LORD.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.31/)
- [All the inhabitants of the isles are appalled at thee, and their kings are horribly afraid, they are troubled in their countenance;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.721/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «horribly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/horribly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.