direful
adjective
dreadful; awful; terrible.
direfully
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a word derived from
direful.
Example Sentences
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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 Allen Chapman
Her new gown had been expensive, but it was terribly simple, and the skirt hung beautifully, but was surely most direfully sombre.
From Flames by Robert Smythe Hichens
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
Not a child cried, not a woman sobbed; they had learned, direfully enough, the piteous art of the oppressed—the knack of silence and concealment.
From The Second Class Passenger Fifteen 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
