Awful and Poor

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Awful adjective - Extremely unsatisfactory.

Usage example: I can't believe I spent good money to see that movie—it was awful

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Poor is a synonym for awful in bad topic. In some cases you can use "Poor" instead an adjective "Awful", when it comes to topics like very bad.

Nearby Word: awfully

Poor adjective - Falling short of a standard.

Usage example: a pretty poor musician, even for a garage band

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Awful is a synonym for poor in abject topic. Sometimes you can use "Awful" instead an adjective "Poor".

Nearby Words: poorly, poorness

In Tributeklok it's suggested that they forgot how to live like poor people because being poor is awful, right before they blow off a tribute gig to go back to eating expensive gourmet food.

Source: Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense
The animation on Duke is (deliberately) atrocious - He is stuck ramrod stiff, has no walking animations, his talking animations fluctuate between poor and awful, and his arm movements are very feeble looking and sounding.

Source: Machinima / Duke Nukem Foreverquest
Just when you start to feel bad for him or agree with him, he'll say something awful about women or gay people or minorities or poor people or... any group he isn't a part of, really.

Source: Radio / True Capitalist

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