"awful by" is not correct and usable in written English.
This phrase does not have a standard meaning and so would not make sense in a sentence.
It is a privilege to have amazing experiences with icons, but we cannot let awe turn into awful by revealing confidences or gushing about the private lives of public figures.
(Serra saw himself, in Glazer's words, as "attacking the awful by increasing the awfulness").
THE BEST AWFUL, by Carrie Fisher.
From "Being Nice Isn't Really So Awful," by Malcolm Gladwell.
The room is actually rather fun, and the food isn't awful, by any means.
"Awful by the standards of the rest of the country -- not surprising here".
British cultural anomaly David Schneider is probably the worst example here, inserting years-old Heskey gags into awful by-the-numbers tweeting, but something strange is going on in actual papers.
But it was great for her in a way because we were so awful that by the time she came onstage, the audience had to be happy".
Once again we're getting a USA game whose pattern was set very early on - this team by an awful mistake by Geoff Cameron.
It's easy — as with New York City Ballet's hideous "Swan Lake" and its grotesque designs by Per Kirkeby — to attack the awful sets by Tony Walton and costumes by Willa Kim.
"Chicago's Awful Divide". By Alana Semuels, The Atlantic, March 28 , 2018
