frightfully
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Spooky season culminates tomorrow, and my colleagues have put together a frightfully good list of what to brew, read, and dress up as to get your weekend off to the right start:
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026
"I don't think I was desperate to find somebody. I certainly hope not. I was frightfully busy with work."
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
"He had black crew-cut hair and National Health glasses and was frightfully shy and very poor... I started selling the odd drawing on his behalf for seven or eight pounds."
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
And it is fantasy to try to divorce sports from the times we live in and the events that unfold, sometimes frightfully, beyond the comfortable confines of the stadium and arena.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2025
“I would never have dreamt of taking you to see her. I’m so frightfully sorry.”
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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