frightly adjective 7adverb 3forms 2 adjective7 •Frightful; dreadful. •"His wives" (he had buried two) had privately complained unto the neighbors about frightly apparitions of evil spirits with which their house was sometimes infested; and many such things had been whispered among the neighborhood." •A more frightly scene was scarcely ever witnessed,” Cadwallader observed. •And they were the first, arriving at frightly matrimonial junction long before their high school classmates had seriously considered such options. •1880, Allen Putnam, Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism, page 404 •2022, Garry Boulard, Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant: Their Epic Battle •2013, Neils Axt, ChronoTales, page 15 adverb3 •In a frightful or dreadful manner. •2025, Brett O'Conor, The Butcher •The Kentucky Fright Chicken. They are frightly good! formsmore frightly · most frightly
