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Discover LudwigThe phrase "awfully safe" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is very safe, often with a hint of irony or sarcasm.
Example: "While the design may seem awfully safe, it lacks the excitement that we were hoping for in this project."
Alternatives: "extremely safe" or "remarkably safe".
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After a year of upheaval and revolt in Hollywood, it all felt awfully safe and devoid of spontaneity.
The movie is thin and tepid... "What Planet Are You From?" offers a great many jokes about sex without itself being very sexual — it's a little dry, a little distant, and, after a while, as the mirthless jokes pile up and the vibrating whatsit is heard for the tenth time, the movie seems a smug and awfully safe way of talking dirty.
And micro is looking awfully safe all of a sudden because there are very low P/E ratios down there.
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Awfully good.
It tasted awfully good.
"He's awfully good.
But he was awfully good.
The soups are awfully good.
I came awfully close to inhabiting a safe space last year, when I joined a group called Queering Faith on Princeton University's campus.
That seems awfully sad.
It is a taking an awfully long time, but at the high table of European banking a safer set of institutions is gradually emerging.But the headwinds still blow hard.
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