direful
adjective
dreadful; awful; terrible.
direfully
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a word derived from
direful.
Example Sentences
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She felt very direfully stiff when she thought about it, but after the first moment she did not think about it.
From The Innocent Adventuress by Mary Hastings Bradley
"Always in haste," said Miss Gould, with an effort at good humour, which Miss Ogilvie direfully mistrusted.
From Magnum Bonum by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Presently one of them left the company and ran towards the group near the stile, who were direfully scared thereby, and scrambled in great fright to go over the stile.
From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes
Because, while parleying with the Devil, he looks angelic; but having given our soft-spoken interlocutor house-room, he makes up for lost time by becoming direfully sincere!
From Idolatry A Romance by Julian Hawthorne
Will you not converse with her upon these points, in which her mind and understanding are so direfully warped?'
From The Wanderer (Volume 1 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
