How to Talk Posh III

Here's some posh vocabulary (continued from How to Talk Posh and How to Talk Posh II):


Posh adjectives
actively nasty
appalling
awful
basic (a bit basic: unluxurious flat/house)
copious
dire
dispiriting
drahstic (rather drahstic)
exiguous (it means small)
frightful
ghastly
ghastly (how perfectly ghastly)
grim
grisly
gruesome
hideous
horrid
immense
poky (too small or shabby flat/house)
simply dreadful
sordid (dirty, or finding dogbowl near cooker)
squalid (tatty surroundings)
sundry
various

Words for children
sproglet
ankle-biter
piglet

Adverbs
absolutely
actually
astonishingly (quite astonishingly horrid)
awfully
drastically
dreadfully
excessively
frightfully
generally
horribly
immoderately
inordinately
intensely
outrageously
overwhelmingly
seriously
staggeringly (nasty)
terribly
unduly
usually
virtually
unremittingly

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How to Talk Posh is now an ebook available here. 

How to Talk Posh I
How to Talk Posh II
How to Talk Posh III
How to Talk Posh IV