The phrase "a far more dire" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the severity of two situations, indicating that one is significantly worse than the other.
Example: "The consequences of climate change are a far more dire threat than we previously understood."
Alternatives: "a much more serious" or "a significantly worse".
The lawsuit, however, paints a far more dire picture.
Earlier this week, the United Nations' scientific panel on climate change released a landmark report that painted a far more dire picture of the immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought.
BALTIMORE - Black men in the United States face a far more dire situation than is portrayed by common employment and education statistics, a flurry of new scholarly studies warn, and it has worsened in recent years even as an economic boom and a welfare overhaul have brought gains to black women and other groups.
"We're facing a far more dire circumstance [than the FAA shutdown], where the entire federal aid program for highways and transit would shut down Oct. 1 unless Congress extends the revenue title," said John Horsley, executive director of the association of state transportation officials.
Once inside, they encountered a far more dire picture than the one broadcast by real estate photos.
The terms of the charges are probably what generated stories that painted a far more dire picture of the alleged victim's condition, the spokesman suggested.
Against this backdrop, Ms. Merkel has been able to quell calls from within own her center-right coalition for Greece to leave the euro zone, by insisting that the consequences of such a step would be far more dire for Germany than providing more financial assistance.
But Obama could not even manage a George W. Bush, who, at an infinitely lower ebb in power and popularity, opposed by the political and foreign policy establishments and dealing with a war effort in far more dire straits, announced his surge -- Iraq 2007 -- with outright rejection of withdrawal or retreat.
While most playground mishaps result in a scraped knee or skinned elbow and can be patched up with a bandage and a kiss, the consequences can be far more dire — and far more expensive.
Though clearly the consequences have the potential to be far more dire if you're a refugee with a life-threatening illness than a bored hippie mum trying to inject some joie de vivre back into her life.
His new ramble begins after doctors mistake a nasty bout of intestinal gas for something far more dire.
