direful
adjective
dreadful; awful; terrible.
direfully
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a word derived from
direful.
Example Sentences
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Sometimes, indeed, in his sleep, he would utter little yells, as from pain, but that occurred, no doubt, when in his dreams he encountered huge flaming dogs who threatened him direfully.
From Men, Women, and Boats by Stephen Crane
He hit the first ball he received clean out of the ground for six runs, but the second ball retaliated and smote him direfully somewhere in the small ribs.
From The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
Gerhardt was still in a direfully angry and outraged mood.
From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Theodore Dreiser
Noises threatened her, and to them, the casual noises of the night, she gave ear anxiously, while above her the fight raged direfully and all unheard.
From Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories by Perceval Gibbon
In no Book is Agamemnon so direfully insulted as in the First, which is admitted to be of the original "kernel."
From Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang
