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fulminous

/ ˈfʊl-, ˈfʌlmɪnəs /

adjective

  1. harshly critical

  2. of, involving, or resembling thunder and lightning

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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These pieces are bracing, argumentative and engineered to show the range of the group members: fulminous, intense collective improvisation; rapid, chromatic steeplechases; research into long tones and textures.

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In his last years he would send out funny, fulminous emails decrying America’s state of disunion.

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Last week, for the first time in its 23 years, New York State's famed, fulminous Boxing Commission had a Negro member.

Nor have I ever heard such a streak of fulminous bad language as Grim swore then, calling earth and all its elements to witness the brimstone anger of a robber chief.

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