The Collaborative International Dictionary
Direfully
Direful \Dire"ful\, a. [Dire + -ful.] Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day. -- Dire"ful*ly, adv. -- Dire"ful*ness, n.
WordNet
direfully
adv. in a direful manner; "seeing himself trapped, he cried out direfully"
Usage examples of "direfully".
Lucius Piso, now urban praetor, frowned direfully at the little group of creditors and postponed a decision until he had looked carefully through every one of the huge bundle of papers presented to him.