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frightful

 adjective
     
fright‧ful old-fashioned especially British English
1 unpleasant or bad [= awful, terrible]:
There's been a frightful accident.
2 used to emphasize how bad something is [= awful, terrible]:
Her hair was a frightful mess.
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