The phrase "awful predicament" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a very difficult or unpleasant situation someone finds themselves in.
Example: "After losing his job and facing mounting bills, he found himself in an awful predicament."
Alternatives: "terrible situation" or "dreadful circumstance.".
Like most parents in her awful predicament, Joan finds ways to blame herself.
Yet, with painful naivety, the Lib Dems see nobility in their awful predicament.
Frayn's virtues as a comic writer were always based on his ability to evoke the instantly recognisable - the awful predicament, the common foible, the typical character.
Many Hurricane Katrina survivors now live in Baton Rouge – which has historically been less susceptible to floods and hurricanes – and have found themselves in the same awful predicament.
IN a beloved clich?f any time-machine movie, the intrepid traveler goofs up the controls and emerges in a cosmically awful predicament -- in the midst of the Spanish Inquisition, say, or at the molten core of the earth.
He speaks only around half a page's worth of text throughout the entire film, and that is mostly a voiceover monologue at the very beginning, about his awful predicament, that may or may not be a mental transcript of the message he finally scribbles on a piece of paper, seals in a jar and throws into the sea.
The Phillies found themselves in awful predicaments all season — starting 4-11, losing Freddy García and Jon Lieber to injury, falling seven games behind the Mets with 17 to play — but rebounded each time.
"A sex worker, for instance, can infect hundreds of people in the course of a month; targeting a prevention message at that worker is vastly more effective than targeting it at a faithful teenage bride, however awful her predicament".
It is an awful glimpse into his predicament, and the predicament of mortality.
Literature provides an oblique line of approach to the awful complexities of his predicament, to Nasreen's apparently motiveless malice.
Her character, Eva Khatchadourian, is too complicated for pity, projecting a mixture of cold poise and extreme vulnerability that makes her predicament especially awful.
