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Sentence example with the word 'dire'
dire
abominable, blameworthy, deplorable, egregious, funest, horrific, lowering, pitiable, shabby, unclean, worthless
Definition
adj.
fraught with extreme danger
Last update: November 27, 2016
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To him the Reform Bill came as a
dire
calamity, and the repeal of the Corn Laws was an unpardonable atrocity.
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The crop side is in even more
dire
straits.
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His childhood was passed in
dire
poverty.
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