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Discover LudwigThe phrase "actually frightening" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize that something is genuinely scary or alarming, often in contrast to what might be expected.
Example: "The horror movie was not just suspenseful; it was actually frightening, leaving the audience on the edge of their seats."
Alternatives: "truly terrifying" or "genuinely scary."
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The fact that he is today running for the nation's highest office is actually frightening.
The level of abuse she got, of sexual violence threats, was actually frightening".
It was a minute and 40 seconds of such poisonous rage that it's actually frightening to watch, even if the message itself was admirable.
The mirror that tells the Queen the bad news about her looks relative to Snow White's is a video projected onto the floor — a face melting in a blue pool — and actually frightening.
And while Trump's promise that "we're gonna work hard on the inner city" and that Ben Carson "is gonna be doing that, big league" sounds condescending and laughable, it's actually frightening.
I remember reading and re-reading and thinking it had been written just for me: "This brilliant man... unschooled beyond the primary grades... found the manners of his suddenly middle-class (by virtue of being at a college) daughter a barrier to easy contact, if not actually frightening.
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It's actually really frightening when you play it the way we did.
So frightening, indeed, that he actually frightened himself.
People are actually frightened.
Violence shocked and actually frightened him.
I am actually frightened for Cablevision employees, especially the C.E.O".
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