needfully
- a word derived from needful.
Example Sentences
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The four soloists — soprano Pretty Yende, mezzo-soprano Sarah Saturnino, tenor SeokJong Baek and bass Nicholas Brownlee — were needfully robust and powerful.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
To the suggestions of Warden Lawes, the conferees listened needfully.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In the olden days it was the pupil who studied the Sunday-school lessons as needfully as he conned the tasks to be prepared for Monday's schoolroom.
From The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Harland, Marion
All young men must go on the war-path, when there's occasion, but war isn't needfully massacre.
From The Deerslayer by Cooper, James Fenimore
Unheedful vows may needfully be broken; And he wants wit that wants resolved will To learn his wit to exchange the bad for better.
From Two Gentlemen of Verona The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Clark, William George