violently

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Violently ill, they have had to be belted into their seats.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2010

Violently anticlerical and stanchly antimonarchist, he could have stepped right out of a Blasco Iba�ez novel.

From Time Magazine Archive

Violently opposed to all forms of gambling, the silver-haired Judge banned W. D. Cox, owner of the Philadelphia Phillies, from baseball for life because Cox bet on his own team.

From Time Magazine Archive

I love Bjork, but there are only so many times I can hear Violently Happy in half an hour.

From Time Magazine Archive

Violently reactionary, he blocked progress—for there can be no progress without change.

From Blood and Iron Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck by Greusel, John Hubert