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Discover LudwigThe phrase "awful scale" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a scale that is perceived as very bad or unpleasant, often in contexts related to measurement or evaluation.
Example: "The awful scale of the project’s failure left the team feeling demoralized and overwhelmed."
Alternatives: "terrible scale" or "dreadful scale".
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His most powerful chapter reveals the awful scale of "the great thinning".
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I feel awful on nights.
Perhaps anyone who spends his or her days building stories, forming a web of events, deciding who within that web may live and may not, is inclined sometimes to try and imagine what it must be like to hatch a real-world plot on an awful scale – one that might change the course of history.
Obviously, what the Qaddafi forces have done and are doing is awful, on a grander scale.
As with Amazon, the margins are awful, but at that scale, it doesn't matter.
Spyros Galinos, the mayor of Lesbos, agrees that conditions are "awful". But he said the scale of the problem had been mind-boggling, with 1,500 people arriving on some days.
"There is far less visibility for women in the first place, and then when we finally do see women competing, the audience reaction is full of awful harassment on a large scale, which both emboldens others to say awful things and discourages other women from wanting to even watch the streams, let alone play on those stages themselves," Romine said.
The shocking and gruesome news out of Port St .Lucie, Florida, last weekend threatened to be swallowed up in a week dominated by awful violence of a more staggering scale.
One insider called the DMI project "the axis of awful", while another source said: "The scale of the project was too big and it got out of hand".
"Without doubt it's awful – it's off the Richter scale", he says of the injunction.
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