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Discover LudwigThe phrase "almost awful" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is very close to being awful but may have some redeeming qualities or is not entirely negative.
Example: "The movie was almost awful, but the performances of the lead actors saved it from being a complete disaster."
Alternatives: "nearly terrible" or "practically dreadful".
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One of them wrote that he found "something impressive and almost awful in the sight of a Christian town, built in a style so peculiar to itself, and unknown to modern Europe, now nearly in the same state in which its destroyers had left it eight centuries ago".
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These are almost universally awful.
The implication is almost too awful to contemplate.
Motel and gas station coffee is almost uniformly awful.
Dr Yes, Jennifer Aniston movies are almost exclusively awful.
The disaster in New Orleans was almost uniquely awful in modern American history.
Skip the cactus tacos, which are almost comically awful: slimy and flavorless.
Past Fords that did make it over the pond were almost uniformly awful.
And the world's longest-serving heads of government are almost uniformly awful.
Rick Reilly at ESPN says the idea of a rematch is almost too awful to think about.
Purkey, who was raised in Wichita, Kansas, had endured an almost unimaginably awful childhood.
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