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direfully (adverb), more direfully, most direfully
1. In a terrible manner: Bill's direfully poor physical situation was relieved only by the relief he received from his friends and neighbors.
2. Descriptive of something that is dreadfully bad; woefully: Finding himself trapped in the snow, Manfred cried out direfully on his cell phone for help.
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