The phrase "awfully tired" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a strong degree of tiredness, often in informal contexts.
Example: "After working a double shift, I felt awfully tired and just wanted to sleep."
Alternatives: "extremely tired" or "very tired.".
But it is constructed on some awfully tired conventions, and over all feels as if it were years too late.
"I am getting awfully tired of being referred to just as Jackie Robinson's brother," he once said.
Mr. Hounsou, who first came to attention as a noble African in "Amistad" and has often had to play the same role since, must be awfully tired of holding his head up so high.
Life in London was stressful for Goldman; she wrote to Berkman: "I am awfully tired and so lonely and heartsick.
When you start to feel awfully tired, know when to stop.
"But now, I'm not half as enamored with stocks or stock options, and I'm getting awfully tired of the constant crises that seem to follow publicly traded companies".
The Eldorado had belonged to his grandfather, a tall, lean, white-haired patriarch who had remained vigorous — still splitting and stacking his own cordwood, still waking at dawn to fish for kings and silvers off Camano Head — until one evening two weeks earlier when he'd said, "I'm awfully goddam tired," and then sat down on the davenport, shut his eyes, and died.
The Eldorado had belonged to his grandfather, a tall, lean, white-haired patriarch who had remained vigorous still splitting and stacking his own cordwood, still waking at dawn to fish for kings and silvers off Camano Head until one evening two weeks earlier when he'd said, "I'm awfully goddam tired," and then sat down on the davenport, shut his eyes, and died.
If he didn't save the world (he can't), it was awfully generous of him to airdrop this gorgeous, warm blanket on some people getting tired of standing out in the cold.
After 40 minutes, I give up because I'm hungry and tired and need to write and all the dialogue is fuzzy, which is awfully tiresome.
