Sentence examples for properly frightened from inspiring English sources

And again, I was properly frightened.

It's a good place for a kid – being properly frightened as opposed to sitting back and watching something unfold sweetly.

They're properly frightened about their futures.

Moriarty is usually a rather dull, rather posh villain so we thought someone who was genuinely properly frightening.

She then signed a statement that the investigators had written for her, even though she was too frightened to properly review its contents.

Fowler calls it a "wicked word," a pretentious and ignorant borrowing from French; properly, it means not "careful," but "frightened" — indeed, teeth-chatteringly so — coming, as it does, from the Latin metus (fear).

During the last three days before admission, she was frightened, couldn't sleep properly and said that people talked to her through the television set.

If the cat does not have a home and you very much so like the kitty, you may keep the cat pending it adapts to your home properly, gets along well and is not frightened by the other animals in your house, and you are willing to get him/her vaccinated properly.

But I was frightened of not doing it properly, of not seeing the needle, which is so tiny" (Interview, IV, carer, w1).

"Employers shouldn't be frightened of such a ruling, but they will have to start managing their staff properly," she said.

She has not been frightened to take on vested interests such as the Police Federation if it means that a crisis is properly gripped or a major scandal tackled.