The phrase "awful line" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a line of text, dialogue, or a statement that is poorly constructed, unappealing, or disappointing.
Example: "The script had an awful line that completely took me out of the moment."
Alternatives: "terrible line" or "poor line".
("We share a vagina" is a peculiarly awful line, for all its clip-reel ubiquity).
Similarly, there's something weary and wearying about the awful line that pops up midway through Eminem's guest appearance: "I even make the bitches I rape come," says Marshall Mathers, who is 42 years old.
It's like that awful line in Pretty Woman that's so great, when he says, 'What do you want?' and she says, 'I want the fairytale.' And there are a lot of lives out there that people have lived that are very fairytale-ish.
When they say this awful line, 'Yo crew, show them where the exits at!' I turn and pause and look at the crew member who is behind me and we both share this look of disgust as we're pointing to the doors.
In 2004, she was subjected to some notoriously awful line-calling and umpiring in a match against Jennifer Capriati.
Poor John Hannah - a decent actor who deserves better - is given some awful lines and awful direction, playing their rackety pal Jonathan, running a club in Shanghai.
The actor slows down his Canadian cowpoke delivery even more than usual, so his eye-of-the-storm timing becomes the joke instead of his awful lines.
Andy and Guy gave him these brilliant, awful lines: "Are we cooking with napalm?"; "Let me run this across the road, see if it gets knocked down"; "stirring ideas in my strategy wok".
The purpose of assembling this awful line-up?
Pitchfork Media's Meaghan Garvey said his rap on the track made "a mockery of the song's serious tone with hysterically awful lines like "How can we keep the feelings fresh/ How do we Ziploc it?"" Lipshutz found his verse "unnecessary, yet [it] has morphed into an interesting confessional now that the dating rumors are on".
"I'd just hate to lose you, oh that was an awful blah line," she wrote.
