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Discover LudwigThe phrase "awful surprised" is not standard in written English; it is considered incorrect.
You might encounter it in informal spoken language, but it is better to use "awfully surprised" for proper usage.
Example: "I was awfully surprised to see her at the party after all these years."
Alternatives: "extremely surprised" or "very surprised.".
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The senator is going to be awful surprised and out of the game early".
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"It was awful, just awful".
"I saw a friend who's from Montreal post saying, 'This is awful but is anyone surprised about this?
Barcelona are absolutely shell shocked and I am not surprised - they have looked awful.
Friday's awful news of 80,000 lost jobs in March surprised economic forecasters, who had not expected such a severe contraction.
"It was predictably awful, and I was not in the least bit surprised," Glasser opined.
I was so surprised that Donald Trump won / he is just an awful person.
"For somebody who knows an awful lot about this system, as I do, I'm a little surprised I said what I did," Mr. Prendergast said of his initial comments on keeping service running.
After decades of British newspapers being notoriously London-centric, readers may have been somewhat surprised to notice a new trend: that of journalists writing about how inexpressibly awful the capital is.
Awful, Awful, Awful.
"There was this awful afternoon when they came over with a tape recorder and said, 'Could you verify that this is you?' " None of this surprised him, really, but it made him feel less crazy.
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