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tempestuously

[ tem-pes-choo-uhs-lee ]

adverb

  1. in a stormy way:

    The rain beat strongly against the windows, and the wind blew tempestuously.

  2. with great force, energy, passion, noise, fury, conflict, etc.; in a tumultuous way:

    She burst into tears and sobbed tempestuously.



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  • un·tem·pes·tu·ous·ly adverb

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The city has had a tempestuous relationship with state housing law for years, resulting in multiple lawsuits brought by developers and tenants.

Or you are Elizabeth Taylor: an on-screen vamp with the most tempestuously public love-life dramas (with Richard Burton).

And after him came tempestuously young Lord Strepp, white on the lips with pure rage.

My own blood boiled now as tempestuously as his; and with a shout of reckless triumph, I rose him at the gate.

A tempest is raging tempestuously without, but within we find a scene of dazzling magnificence.

Dont you believe him, tempestuously interrupted the temperamental little thing.

So he laid him upon his mother's pillows; and the boy wreathed his soft arms about her neck and sobbed tempestuously.

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