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direfully
adverb
literaryuk /ˈdaɪə.fəl.i/ us /ˈdaɪr.fəl.i/
in a way that is very bad or unpleasant: 恶劣地，糟糕地，差劲地
He was attacked by a dangerous illness from which he suffered direfully throughout the whole campaign.
We continued to suffer direfully from the violence of the ship's motion.
Our liberties are direfully threatened by this war.
The huge bull suffered most direfully under the punishment.
It is impossible for this to happen in the way that has been so direfully predicted by some of our colleagues.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Serious and unpleasant
abominable
abominably
abysmal
abysmally
apocalyptic
frightful
from hellidiom
fun
ghastliness
Gothically
noxiously
objectionable
objectionably
odious
odiously
unpleasantness
unpretty
unspeakable
unspeakably
unsupportable
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