Direst is valid Scrabble Word

Is direst a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is direst valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
7 points in Scrabble
7 points in WWF

Definitions for DIREST in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

DIRE, disastrous
extremely serious or urgent
(of a warning or threat) presaging disaster
of a very poor quality

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

superlative of dire

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How to use DIREST in a sentence

In her direst necessities she never went beyond the laws, and seldom beyond the wishes of the people.
Nothing but direst necessity reconciled him to the disagreeable task.
He knew that a civil war would be the direst calamity.
The two friends, reduced shortly to the direst poverty, parted with their horses and all but the most necessary wearing apparel.
Gout was his direst torment, a malady productive of ill-humour at its worst, and poor Cammilla, lonely wife, nurse, companion, had none to share his impatience.
Locked in deadly embrace, and writhing as if in direst agony, the mighty floods plunged the abyss, while far above floated the white plume of the presiding genius of old Niagara.
In this direst of needs the boy finally plucked up courage and pounded on the door with all his might.
Later she had found us, abandoned by them, in time of direst need, and in danger of an awful death, and had warmed and cheered us back to hope and confidence.
Ellis attacked them with such fierceness and energy that they were forced to descend, muttering the direst curses.
He died in a struggle against the blackest force and the direst threat that has appeared against liberty and humanity within the memory of man.

Often in their direst straits did they decline to ask aid from England, lest they might thereby furnish a plea for her interference with their internal affairs.
It would all be hers some day, so what difference did it make? But the direst want would not have made him touch a penny of it.
Oaths exploded like shells from a battery in full fire, accompanied by threats of direst vengeance against the individuals who had maltreated them.
Left alone, Siegmund muses in the dying firelight on the promise made him by his father, that at the hour of his direst need he should find a sword.
The direst penance Johnny can know is to have his pockets stitched up because he will keep his hands in them.
The life of the German dramatist and actor of the first half of the eighteenth century was one of the direst hardship and poverty.
I am horrified by conviction that one small error of calculation will entail direst retribution.
To all outward appearances they overcame Him and brought Him into direst distress.
As for you, O ye lovers of God, make firm your steps in His Cause, with such resolve that ye shall not be shaken though the direst of calamities assail the world.
In the depths of calamity He would smile, and even when enduring the direst of afflictions He would comfort the hearts.
So things were until recent times, when we were subjected to this direst of all ordeals.
They were scourged and tortured, imprisoned and subjected to direst calamities in the fulfillment of Their mission.
This we will, we must, resist to the direst extremity.
Boys of sixteen and girls of fourteen have supplied the poets with their greatest love stories and direst tragedies.
The poor prisoner uttered sundry involuntary noises in the course of the night, and was in the direst terror at the inquiries which they awakened on the part of the husband.
With a single nod you will excite to the direst confusion what, with patient effort, we have so long kept in abeyance.
By the Court, and by the great privileged classes of France, this great assembly of the three estates of the realm was looked upon as the last resort amid direst calamities.
Usury laws are fruits of the social conscience, a recognition of the duty to protect the weaker citizen in the period of his direst need.
The problem of sex is a far deeper problem than appears at first sight, involving mysteries both the direst and most holy.
She passed months in terror and distress and, until I became old enough to provide for her, often suffered from direst poverty.
Even in direst necessity it is a fearful thing to deliberately take a human life, but Will had no time for hesitation.
Our direst struggles and the last sanctions of our morality do not appear in them.
Good Heavens, how it blew! The waters seemed alive and in direst convulsion.
And this in spite of the fact that he was in the direst poverty.
Patient waiting on slowly-dying Hope is surely the direst moral and mental torture to which poor humanity can be subjected.
She described in detail all the surgical operations she had ever had any experience with, following some to their direst consequences.

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