Seeing himself trapped, he cried out direfully. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : direful forecasts. From Dictionary.com.
"No, the jail for you," threatened the cook direfully. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail] Reference
Glanced over her shoulder, struggled to frown direfully. From Wordnik.com. [The Ideal Bride]
Gerhardt was still in a direfully angry and outraged mood. From Wordnik.com. [Jennie Gerhardt] Reference
Mobei the toilet dealer had suffered direfully at her hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
Men of the present day are so direfully afraid of a refusal!. From Wordnik.com. [Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow."] Reference
When Julia came into his study, she found Marius frowning direfully. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
Frowning direfully, she viciously decapitated another shriveled set of blooms. From Wordnik.com. [The Ideal Bride]
"Rome has no business in Egypt!" the King said, frowning awfully and direfully. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
The speaker, muttering direfully under his breath, was about to slam down the window. From Wordnik.com. [Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent] Reference
I do not have Hebrew, but my understanding is that the OT is more direfully condemnatory. From Wordnik.com. [Any sympathy for the gay evangelicals?] Reference
Then he frowned, but not direfully; a thoughtful, reminiscent sort of frown that changed in a twinkling to a wide smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
The Hammal, direfully wrath, threatened to shoot him upon the spot, and it was not without difficulty that I calmed the storm. From Wordnik.com. [First footsteps in East Africa] Reference
Finally he got to his feet and stepped to the edge of his small Tyrian purple podium, where he stood with immense dignity, frowning direfully. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Marius shifted restlessly on the middle couch, frowning, but less direfully than of yore, for the lingering paralysis gave the left half of the grimace a mournful quality. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
Most of the time it blew horribly, and they were direfully ill. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Charles Dickens] Reference
"Now my troubles are over," thought I, and as usual was direfully mistaken. From Wordnik.com. [Hospital Sketches] Reference
He is a good man, but direfully argumentative, and in that sense to me a bore. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1] Reference
“Now my troubles are over,” thought I, and as usual was direfully mistaken. From Wordnik.com. [Hospital sketches] Reference
Space is really a direfully difficult subject! the third dimension bothers me very much still. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Letters of William James I] Reference
The pupil's words may be right, but the conceptions corresponding to them are often direfully wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals] Reference
I invited him to enter, and he came in and stood with his fur cap on his head, looking direfully at me. From Wordnik.com. [Jacqueline of Golden River] Reference
Book is Agamemnon so direfully insulted as in the First, which is admitted to be of the original "kernel.". From Wordnik.com. [Homer and His Age] Reference
Hammal, direfully wrath, threatened to shoot him upon the spot, and it was not without difficulty that I calmed the storm. From Wordnik.com. [First Footsteps in East Africa] Reference
I rejoiced in every one of my unhappy friend's responsive vibrations, even while feeling that they might as direfully multiply as those that had preceded them. From Wordnik.com. [A Passionate Pilgrim] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
All that he said and prophesied has come so direfully true that I have now full faith and confidence in his vision and practical sense on the subject of the Goth race. From Wordnik.com. [Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Idolatry A Romance] Reference
Not another word out of you! "commanded Anderson direfully. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughter of Anderson Crow] Reference
Those, however, who are so direfully tormented, pass on by degrees to more tolerable pains. ". From Wordnik.com. [Spiritual Works of Louis of Blois] Reference
It seemed so direfully, so hopelessly wrong!. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Julia Page] Reference
In both these points he was direfully mistaken. From Wordnik.com. [Lafayette] Reference
A direfully conventional romanticist, H.F. Ewald. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Scandinavian Literature] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.

