The phrase "awful failure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or event that has gone very wrong or has not met expectations.
Example: "The project was an awful failure, leading to significant financial losses for the company."
Alternatives: "complete disaster" or "total flop".
The opposition England are facing is not exactly providing a thorough examination of their strengths and weakness and how far they have come since that awful failure in Brazil.
Abrams is an awful failure who left a wreckage of lies, deceit, gun-running and illegality in his government duties.
Just as we're led to think that investment banking is some epitome of success, we're also conditioned to think losing one of these jobs is some awful failure.
"We all talk about Apollo 11, but there were some pretty public, pretty awful failures along the way," Grumet said.
Despite these awful failures, Sherman was rewarded with a promotion and a mission to take Atlanta.
"Entirely unrepresentative vox pop: I met a Chinese guy tonight in Tufnell Park who said the Olympics were $25bn too expensive, an insult to poverty-stricken Chinese, and London 2012 will be an awful, expensive failure.
He elaborated on his feelings of inadequacy, "that whole afternoon I was trying to be a dude, trying to be a man, and I was just awful, a failure".
As awful a failure as it was for its manufacturer, the first sign that Sega were going to fall out of competition with Nintendo and, soon enough, Sony, the Mega-CD is the one console I'll probably always hold a place in my heart for.
A combination of awful weather, equipment failure, isolation and late-night flying may have contributed to what is expected to be a terrible outcome.As dusk fell, amid the blows of another storm, AH5017 is still officially missing.
The awful fear that failure is just around the corner.
It's been 16 games since Butcher's awful run of failure began.
