direfully
- a word derived from direful.
Example Sentences
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We were alive and strong, though labouring direfully.
From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)
"Always in haste," said Miss Gould, with an effort at good humour, which Miss Ogilvie direfully mistrusted.
From Magnum Bonum by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
The speaker, muttering direfully under his breath, was about to slam down the window.
From Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent by Chapman, Allen
"Now my troubles are over," thought I, and as usual was direfully mistaken.
From Hospital Sketches by Alcott, Louisa May
To the French, quite as much as to the Bryanited American, war is a senseless, inhuman thing; but it becomes direfully necessary when the home has been burned and laid waste.
From The World Decision by Herrick, Robert
