god-awful

See also: godawful, god awful, and God-awful

English

Alternative forms

• God-awful, god awful, godawful, goshawful, gawdawful

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Adjective

god-awful (comparative more god-awful, superlative most god-awful)

1. (US, slang) Extremely awful, unpleasant or dreadful.

   Your roast beef was the most god-awful piece of meat I ever ate.

   • 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, Penguin, published 1976, →OCLC, part 1, page 86:

     LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets god-awful cold in the winter but there’s a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.

   • 1971, “Life on Mars?”, performed by David Bowie:

     It's a god-awful small affair
     To the girl with the mousy hair