Sentence examples for awfully lovely from inspiring English sources

The phrase "awfully lovely" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is both beautiful and somewhat flawed or imperfect, often in a charming way.
Example: "The old, dilapidated house had an awfully lovely charm that drew in visitors."
Alternatives: "beautifully flawed" or "charmingly imperfect".

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Despite the Wells & Walsingham and beach railways (awfully lovely, not awfully convenient), you need a car.

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It looked awfully lonely.

"It's awfully nice to have met you and your lovely daughter, but we should get going".

Which would be lovely, but I suspect we have an awfully long way to go before her wish comes true.

Mihaela Mihut is lovely as Sheena from Zagreb, but she seems awfully surprised, for a professional sex worker, that a man might be willing to pay just to rest his head in her lap and have his hair stroked.

For a mad scientist, Victor is awfully well connected — better, even, than Charles and Mary Lamb, who held center stage in Ackroyd's lovely novel of the Romantic age, "The Lambs of London".

Awfully wrong".

Awfully quick.

Awfully good.

It was awfully high, but awfully lonesome.

Lovely, lovely, lovely Leitrim.

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