fiery
adjective
consisting of, attended with, characterized by, or containing fire.
fieriness
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a word derived from
fiery.
Example Sentences
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“When you talk about ‘full of crap,’ I really don’t think you’re being fair to crap,” he said, gesturing at fieriness without actually committing to it.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2025
She’s done that partly by diluting some of her rhetoric and fieriness.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 9, 2022
Yet if Ali wore his fieriness like a badge of honor, he also knew how to charm and disarm with humor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2021
It’s a lot for a child character, but the young Mr. Totah is superb: His comic energy is astoundingly well calibrated, and he allows just enough genuine humanity to show through Michael’s haughty, campy fieriness.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2018
She had a fiery temper; but that fieriness was reserved almost entirely for grown-up people.
From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by John St. Loe Strachey
