direful

IPA: dˈaɪrfʌɫ

Examples of "direful" in Sentences

It's a direful thing to have in your hands, a desiccated version of Lady Gaga's skirt-steak dress.
He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft, and of the direful omens and portentous sights and sounds in the air…
The beginning was not easy, it was even "direful," and "methought" I should die of despair; but now things are going, I am all right, come what may!
This he took in good part, and was really pleased, nodding his head with direful foreknowledge and mystery, until George Leach, the erstwhile cabin-boy, ventured some rough pleasantry on the subject.
While you diligently pursued that favorite phantom of yours, called profits, and moralized about that favorite fetich of yours, called competition, even greater and more direful things have been accomplished by combination.
If it may lead any portion of the public to learn Better to distinguish than hitherto Between those who have plunged us into such a war and so long kept us in it and those who would have prevented our ever rushing into that direful whirlpool I have my chief object.
The Road could be classified as science-fiction for the near-future setting and prophetic look of a world turned to ash, and it could be classified as horror for the suspense and direful moments the characters must endure -- two genres I'm sure McCarthy would prefer to keep at a distance from his work.