above-board vs awful

above-board

adv
  • Honestly; openly. 

adj
  • In open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. 

awful

adv
  • Very, extremely. 

  • Awfully; dreadfully; terribly. 

adj
  • Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively. 

  • Very bad. 

How often have the words above-board and awful occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )