violently

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

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2010

Violently averse to "The Trusts" Mr. Mitchell liked to heckle J. P. Morgan Sr. and John D. Rockefeller Sr. The latter he depicted as a sniveling psalm-singing hypocrite.

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Violently startled, she sprang up from her seat, her face a glowing crimson, muttering some disjointed words, to the effect that she did not know anybody was there.

From Verner's Pride by Wood, Henry, Mrs.