Horribly and Really

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Horribly adverb - Of a dreadful kind.

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Really and horribly are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Really" instead an adverb "Horribly".

Nearby Words: horrible, horrid

Really adverb - In actual fact.

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Horribly and really are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Horribly" instead an adverb "Really".

Nearby Words: realize, real, reality, realistic, realization

The Author's Note at the back says there really were Pals' Battalions, and they really were a horribly innocent way of ensuring all the young men from a given area would be killed at once.

Source: Useful Notes / World War I
However, individual people can really get screwed over by Fate and suffer horribly.

Source: The Future Will Be Better
Played horribly straight in the VC campaign, where they are, really, really hard to fight.

Source: Videogame / Vietcong

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