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The phrase "awful disaster" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation that is both extremely bad and disastrous in nature.
Example: "The hurricane caused an awful disaster, leaving the town in ruins and its residents displaced."
Alternatives: "terrible catastrophe" or "horrible calamity".
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There wasn't some awful disaster.
I just feel frightened because I think there is some awful disaster in store for me.
There wasn't some awful disaster, There wasn't a war or a famine or a plague or a foreign occupation...
"Our preliminary assessment indicates that the city currently has all the ingredients in place for a truly awful disaster," said Sobel.
Do you think that is good for the city?Bobby Jindal: …Katrina was an awful, awful disaster for New Orleans, for Louisiana, for the entire region.
"All we know now is, this is an awful disaster," Representative Nick J. Rahall II said as he arrived at the mine site, which is in his district.
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Were there awful disasters and atrocities?
For never was it more fully proved by awful disasters of the Roman people or by indubitable signs that the gods care not for our safety, but for our punishment.
And another of him looking understandably concerned in the uproariously awful Rutger Hauer/Kim Cattrall disaster flick Split Second ("They've seen the future … now they have to kill it").
The Great Recession was an awful economic disaster that caused millions of Americans to suffer greatly.
But this is not a story about how awful the disaster was—it's about how everyone coped with it.
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