English

Adjective

awfulest

1. superlative form of awful: most awful
   • 1872, Sophia May (Rebecca Sophia Clarke), Little Folks Astray:

     It's the awfulest city that ever I saw.

   • 1896, Samuel Clemens, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc:

     The awfulest thing was the silence; there wasn't a sound but the screaking of the saddles, the measured tramplings, and the sneezing of the horses, afflicted by the smothering dust-clouds which they kicked up.

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