Sentence examples for slightly awful from inspiring English sources

At the time, I had a slightly awful addiction to true crime shows.

Despite a fragile temperament, one notes his decency towards his slightly awful family, his love of companionship, and his wry tolerance of those who would do him down.

It was a slightly awful book, entitled "Who Killed Daniel Pearl?", by a French writer, Bernard-Henri Lévy, that reminded me.Mr Lévy reckoned Omar was working for Pakistani's Inter Services Intelligence agency (ISI).

Aiken, who finished second to Ruben Studdard in 2003, blasted this season's runner-up on his blog deriding Lambert's version of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" as "contrived," "awful," "slightly frightening," and added "Omigod, who dressed that boy?" Aiken now writes that his comments were just meant to be colorful.

Then on the day he does something slightly less awful than promised ­­– and the press hail him as a genius.

When the appointed day comes, he does something slightly less awful than promised – and the press hail his political savvy.

After losing $7.4 billion in 2002, the six-biggest American carriers were in the red by a slightly less awful $5.3 billion last year.

And yet you know, somehow, that Niko, with his slightly less awful new clothes, feels as though he is moving up in the world.

Then, when I checked in last Wednesday for that 5 45 a.m. flight, I was offered a slightly less awful seat than the one I had for $39 extra on the cramped regional jet flight from Houston to Mexico City.

This year, for the first time since 1998, the grade has risen from a miserable D to a slightly less awful D+, thanks to increased spending in six of the 16 categories measured: bridges, drinking water, railways, roads, solid waste and waste water.

All make a catastrophic situation slightly less awful.