Causing fear or dread or terror.
1 The direful youths fought in the Steynham stables, overheard by the grooms.
2 He felt himself supremely helpless in the presence of the direful calamity.
3 At night the scene was far more direful than in the day.
4 They discovered uncharted islands and cheerfully fought savages or suffered direful shipwreck.
5 In such a case, how avert the chances of a direful conflict?
6 When he arrived in his native land he learned of two direful events.
7 She felt instinctively that the name was one of direful omen to herself.
8 To-day the contemplation of that commonplace garden gave him direful pain.
9 This, I am sure, will avert the bloody and direful conflict.
10 First, Jemmy Tweedle felt on his hinder head the direful bone.
11 It seemed as if poverty became ever more direful , and dissatisfaction more importunate.
12 The three men knew that she brought momentous, perchance direful , intelligence.
13 That direful mishap was at the bottom of his temporary recluseness.
14 You who make dramas, you will never invent anything as direful as that.
15 To hang upon that which is dark, direful , and saddening tends to degeneracy.
16 The day had been too full, too full of direful things.
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