Sentence examples for it less awful from inspiring English sources
The targets were military (not that that makes it less awful), and 2,402 men were killed and 1,282 wounded.
And even if you planted Swiss chard, and it grew to normal size, and you cooked it to death so that it tasted less awful, you'd still have to clean it, with a million paper towels.
"Being hurt by those you love is awful, but it is less awful if you know they mean to help".
But still: isn't it all so much Less Awful than it looked yesterday?
"I've been describing this market under 10 million as awful, so it's like less awful," said Ken Czubay, Ford's vice president for sales and marketing.
Right-wing radio and television hosts routinely indulge in the language of armed resistance to the tyranny that resides in Washington, DC, as though Barack Obama were a reincarnation of the hated King George III and they were the heroes of the revolution.None of this is useful or clever and it is no less awful because the American left is also guilty of crass hyperbole.
It's marginally less awful than receiving a message from your doctor saying, "Please come in to discuss test results!!! Urgent!!!" but definitely much worse than a succession of calls from withheld numbers demanding that you put in a claim for mis-sold PPI.
Second trimester abortion is still legal and the most common method for it — dismembering a fetus inside the womb before removing it in pieces — is no less awful to contemplate than the outlawed procedure, in which an intact fetus's skull was punctured and collapsed to ease its removal.
While the 2009 stimulus plan succeeded in making the recession less awful than it might have been, you rarely get credit in politics for what didn't happen.
But, that said, Mr. Obama did push through policies — the auto bailout and the Recovery Act — that made the slump a lot less awful than it might have been.
