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god-awful en · ADJ
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(US, derogatory, slang) Extremely awful, unpleasant or dreadful.
It's a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
1971, “Life on Mars?”, performed by David Bowie:LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets god-awful cold in the winter but there’s a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.
1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, London: Penguin Books, published 1976, →ISBN, part 1, page 86:Your roast beef was the most god-awful piece of meat I ever ate.
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