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direfully

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dire·ful  (drfl)
adj.
1. Inspiring dread; terrible.
2. Foreshadowing evil or disaster; ominous.

direful·ly adv.
direful·ness n.
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Adv.1.direfully - in a direful manner; "seeing himself trapped, he cried out direfully"


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But nevertheless, traveller as he was, he passed the night direfully sick in his carriage, where his courier tended him with brandy-and- water and every luxury.
Be it what it may, now, it was so direfully impressed at tea-time by Mr.
 
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