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direfully is an adverb meaning "in a direful manner". It carries one recorded sense.
in a direful manner
“seeing himself trapped, he cried out direfully”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for direfully come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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