horribly.
In a horrible way; very badly.
Meaning & usage
In a horrible way; very badly.
The beginning art students displayed their horribly executed paintings with hopeful faces.
To an extreme degree or extent.
Then everything went horribly wrong.
The man was horribly nice, yet she still wouldn't marry him.
With a very bad effect.
Horribly, as he was dying, his eyes reddened.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English horribly, horribely, horribliche, horriblelyche, equivalent to horrible + -ly.
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