tempestuously
Americanadverb
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in a stormy way.
The rain beat strongly against the windows, and the wind blew tempestuously.
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with great force, energy, passion, noise, fury, conflict, etc.; in a tumultuous way.
She burst into tears and sobbed tempestuously.
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Outside, the briny tang of windswept sea air, the North Sea swirling tempestuously below.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
At just 19, she married Sir Peter Scott, the son of Captain Scott of the Antarctic and went on to marry twice more, most famously and tempestuously to Kingsley Amis.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2014
“There is nothing that’s more important in democracy than a well-informed electorate,” she says tempestuously.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2012
This entailed slashing one’s shirt to the waist in a gypsy-ish fashion, and biting the air tempestuously, as if catching flies.
From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2012
A body which, like the average parish parliament, numbers from five to eleven, is not likely to prove a tempestuously democratic, or violently revolutionary assemblage.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)
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