direful

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I always say there is something direful in that sound.'

From BBC • Sep. 22, 2014

Sure, if by dangerous you mean significantly riskier than cars but slightly less direful than motorcycles.

From Slate • Sep. 3, 2014

Pliny the Elder, writing in the first century AD, called them prophetic, direful and accursed.

From The Guardian • May 25, 2013

It’s a direful thing to have in your hands, a desiccated version of Lady Gaga’s skirt-steak dress.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2010

But at this direful moment she who had awakened no compassion in mortals or immortals was pitied by the tiniest creatures of the field, the little ants, the swift-runners.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton