direfully
/ˈdaɪərfəli/
adverb
- In a way that causes or involves great fear, suffering, or disaster; terribly.
- The village was direfully affected by the flood, losing homes and crops.
- She direfully predicted that the company would go bankrupt within a year.
- The storm direfully damaged the coastline, leaving many homeless.
- To an extreme or very serious degree; desperately.
- The hospital is direfully understaffed, with nurses working double shifts.
- He was direfully short of money and couldn't pay his rent.
- The team was direfully in need of a new coach after losing ten games in a row.
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