all-fired

Example Sentences

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It was Albert, not Victoria, who was so all-fired prim and proper that the term Victorian was saddled on her era as a synonym for Puritan rigidity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Appalachian cabins never gleamed so spiffily as at Dolly Parton's new Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. Country music rarely sounded so all-fired wholesome as it does at Nashville's Opryland.

From Time Magazine Archive

And thank heavens for Irene Saltz, without whose all-fired energy Tarbox would never have achieved such an effective League of Women Voters or Fair Housing Group.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Well, yes, I do, but ye don’t hev to be in sech a all-fired hurry. I want ye to tell me somethin’.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

Then most of the adults started to gather around the cleared tables and I went over to the deserted horseshoe pits to see what was so all-fired important about throwing horseshoes.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt