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frightful

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
frightful/ˈfrʌɪtfl/

▶adjective

1 very unpleasant, serious, or shocking.

2 informal terrible; awful: her hair was a frightful mess.

– derivatives
frightfully adverb,
frightfulness noun.

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arranged in exchange for frightful flight times and the vaguest of accommodation descriptions.
frightful/scary

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