direly
- a word derived from dire.
Example Sentences
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School bond supports say the money is direly needed to help fund repairs and upgrades at thousands of California public elementary, middle and high schools and community colleges.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2024
Equipment, including excavators and plows so direly needed now, were sold off.
From Seattle Times • May 1, 2024
New treatments and therapeutic targets are direly needed for these conditions.
From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2024
"A fiscal commission is direly needed," Republican Senator Mike Braun, a Budget Committee member, said in an interview.
From Reuters • Nov. 21, 2023
Yet doth he lie here direly sick of body.
From Beltane the Smith by Farnol, Jeffery
