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frightfully

f rahyt fuh lee

  • r  used as intensifiers

  • Just now, grown-up horror is frightfully chic.
  • And it was frightfully hot.
  • It was all frightfully decadent, and frightfully innocent.
Quotes

  • Ian McKellen in Forbes
    I'd never read `Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book,McKellen said. "I had never come across the `X-Men' comics till I was asked to play Magneto, so I just jumped...
  • Prince Charles in Telegraph.co.uk
    Discussing the trainee priests' decision to go into the church, the Prince said: "It would seem in today's world that this was a frightfully unfashionable thing to do, but ladies and gentleman, you are, in some extraordinary way, bucking the trend."
  • Nick Dougherty in Independent Online
    The course is as good as it could be, and it is still frightfully tough out there,Dougherty said. "It was somewhat easier to try and stop the ball near the hole."

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