The phrase "awful illness" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a disease or condition that is particularly severe or distressing.
Example: "After battling an awful illness for months, she finally began to regain her strength."
Alternatives: "terrible disease" or "horrible sickness.".
Dementia is the most awful illness.
"He never ever stopped smiling despite that awful illness," she said.
"I knew that it was an awful illness, and I was keen not to have it," he says.
There was also Mestikima, a young Ethiopian who I met while making a documentary about the awful illness Noma.
Recalling his "darling aunt," her nephew, Prince Charles, told reporters: "The last few years with her awful illness were hard for her to deal with, particularly as she was such a wonderfully vibrant woman with such a free spirit".
RP: "Well does it or is it helpful in some ways?" P9: "It's my way of coping and that's the way I am and I won't change" P9, female, South Wales P9: " it was just nice to be in a room full of people who all had the same thread running through, but we're so different, funny and warm and just to be able to discuss openly how this bloody awful illness had affected us.
No one really expects to visit a food blog and be faced by something so personal, so awful as illness.
An awful, demon-like illness you've had plenty of times before, each bout no less painful than the last.
Listen, said Orson, you can't force people to take care of themselves, and what makes you think the worst, he could be just run down, people still do get ordinary illnesses, awful ones, why are you assuming it has to be that.
By searching for what Tina Hunt called "the key that turns the lock," a capital-defense attorney operates on the broad assumption that the perpetrators of terrible crimes are also victims themselves — indeed, that only victims of mental illness or awful circumstances could commit such crimes.
Even the uber-grounded and the ultra-cynical will find parallels in their own universe: Guantánamo, Ariel Castro, psychosis and mental illness, plus some of the awful things that happen in US high schools.
