"awfully poor" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe someone's financial situation or the quality of something that is very bad. Example: Unfortunately, due to the economic recession, many families in the community are awfully poor and struggling to make ends meet.
But settling so many vexing controversies with 5-to-4 votes — effectively making Anthony Kennedy the nation's philosopher king — is an awfully poor way to run a republic.
Sadly, you take their stilted view rather than letting your imagination soar with the best among the science-fiction writers.Ranko Bon Motovun, Istria, CroatiaSIR —In comparing the crew of a future Mars mission to Magellan's shipmates, you conjure up awfully poor prospects for their psychological health or even survival.
Moreover his confession, rather than encouraging us to trust him, confirms that we were right to oppose the invasion based on claims of weapons of mass destruction; it should encourage us to continue our opposition based on what amounts to an awfully poor track record of getting his facts right.
Neighbors who oppose or challenge the historic district said that it would have the effect of raising property values and rents and that it would impose so many regulatory burdens that the very people who had held the blocks together through awfully lean years — poorer, older African-American and Caribbean-American owners and occupants — would be the first to go.
He's either lying or he's done an awfully good job of selling poor plans.
There's nothing like a poor loser and it's awfully easy to get that label".
Lewis Grabban slots home the equaliser The goal was archetypal Arsenal, Sanchez robbing Gary O'Neil after a poor clearance from John Ruddy left the Norwich skipper awfully compromised in the middle of his own half.
The film has received mostly poor reviews with the Guardian's Henry Barnes calling it "awfully silly".
This is possible, but it requires that the two asset classes aren't just poor substitutes, they're complements, which is possible but is awfully strong).
The poor quality of the experience comes to a climax in awfully designed boss battles where one wrong move means instant death and it is never clear what exactly constitutes a wrong move.
It looks for "undervalued" charities in the poorest regions of the world, where a dollar goes an awfully long way, then sends in its own operative to check things out.
