Sentence examples for how frightfully from inspiring English sources

How frightfully dull, as Lady Mary might say.

There, with cigarette holder, and wearing a velveteen and silk dressing gown, in the next room, holding his audience in raptures there's an awfully nice chap telling us how frightfully wonderfully it all is.

"Are Mr Frost's amusing and possibly true tales of Henman's sister-in-law and Diana's god children not just a roundabout way of telling us how frightfully well-connected he is?" asks a frightfully well-connected-sounding Giles Helding.

Since Jeffs' group is a Mormon offshoot, and since the definition of offshoot is "outgrowth: a natural consequence of development," it isn't unreasonable to wonder how deep-rooted his frightfully racist views are within the broader American Mormon movement.

It is frightfully fashion-forward to speak of how the Levy must be replaced by a more up-to-date mechanism that – how does the line go?

And the evidence is here in the letters that he often did good by stealth, though he could be severe on anyone who tried to take advantage of his good nature.There is, however, a serious question about how, and especially how much of his own stuff was "frightfully good".

With the incredibly labored message about how Downton and Sunseeker are two successful peas in a frightfully British pod made, Bonneville then cut another ribbon, declaring the Sunseeker stand open.

With the incredibly laboured message about how Downton and Sunseeker are two successful peas in a frightfully British pod made, Bonneville then cut another ribbon, declaring the Sunseeker stand open.

She and Ms. Maxwell are both struck by how the play and its characters, while still blithely set in the Jazz Age and a frightfully large apartment, have with time acquired softer edges and greater emotional shadings.

How I know it's quaint: Fulperware and Stangl pottery once churned out of kilns here now sell at frightfully inflated prices on eBay.

One frightfully clever, the other frightfully decent.