Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a stormy manner; tempestuously.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a stormy manner.
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- adverb In a
stormy manner. Often used figuratively fornoisily .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a stormy or violent manner
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Examples
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Deanna stormily said, "There won't be a wedding between us!"
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Deanna stormily said, "There won't be a wedding between us!"
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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It should come as no surprise that China would react so stormily to any suggestion of Taiwanese independence: once again Chinese territory seemed threatened.
Friend Or Foe? 2008
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They recall her famous confrontation with Boris Yeltsin in 1989 when, as a rising Russian politician, he stormily complained he was not being allowed in the White House's front entrance and she sharply cut him off.
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I believe we oftentimes react in understanding or variance because of our outlooks, but hearing another side, stormily delivered, really makes us think!
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Though JK Rowling is apparently stormily displeased, most people can make the decision: to read or not to read.
The WritingYA Weblog: Viva las Divas! tanita davis 2007
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Though JK Rowling is apparently stormily displeased, most people can make the decision: to read or not to read.
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The craziness in the film is so extremely expressed and so evenly distributed that the two lead performers — Samuel L. Jackson as the stormily asthmatic African-American investigating officer, Lorenzo Council, and Julianne Moore as the emotionally distraught and mentally disturbed white mother, Brenda Martin — have been critically tarred and feathered for the presumed sin of overacting.
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The craziness in the film is so extremely expressed and so evenly distributed that the two lead performers — Samuel L. Jackson as the stormily asthmatic African-American investigating officer, Lorenzo Council, and Julianne Moore as the emotionally distraught and mentally disturbed white mother, Brenda Martin — have been critically tarred and feathered for the presumed sin of overacting.
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The craziness in the film is so extremely expressed and so evenly distributed that the two lead performers — Samuel L. Jackson as the stormily asthmatic African-American investigating officer, Lorenzo Council, and Julianne Moore as the emotionally distraught and mentally disturbed white mother, Brenda Martin — have been critically tarred and feathered for the presumed sin of overacting.
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