dreadfully vs excruciatingly

dreadfully

adv
  • In a dreadful manner. 

excruciatingly

adv
  • In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great anguish or pain. 

  • In a very intense or extreme manner. 

How often have the words dreadfully and excruciatingly occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )