Thesaurus / vehement
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Bahadur Shah held out against the vehement urging of his daughter aided now by the counsel of her brothers.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYHis largesses were abundant, and the uproar of vehement thanksgiving, was ever on the watch from the venal multitude.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERThe intense yearning in his heart threatened any minute to burst forth in vehement speech, almost in action.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODStill the vehement voices of the brown fellahîn at work by the shadûf rose unwearied along the Nile.
BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENSOn him, it is said, the King turned with vehement indignation, charging him even with treason and double-dealing.
KING ROBERT THE BRUCEA. F. MURISONMany of the Girondists in the Assembly gave vehement but unavailing utterance to their execration of the massacres.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTTHer lips move, and I feel her warm breath on my cheek; but, without uttering a word, she bursts into vehement weeping.
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMANFor there was vehement party feeling and hot discussion in ecclesiastical matters.
THE ENGLISH CHURCH IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURYCHARLES J. ABBEY AND JOHN H. OVERTONOn the fourth of October was put forth a vehement contradiction of the story.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAYBut now her strength was failing her, he was certain; her moans were becoming more frequent, her protests more vehement.
LOVE'S PILGRIMAGEUPTON SINCLAIRWORDS RELATED TO VEHEMENT
- animated
- ardent
- blazing
- burning
- devout
- dying to
- eager
- earnest
- ecstatic
- emotional
- enthused
- excited
- fervid
- fiery
- glowing
- gotta have
- gung-ho
- heartfelt
- hearty
- hopped up
- hot
- hot for
- hot-blooded
- impassioned
- intense
- passionate
- perfervid
- pious
- religious
- responsive
- serious
- sincere
- tender
- unfeigned
- vehement
- warm
- warmhearted
- wholehearted
- zealous
- animated
- ardent
- blazing
- burning
- devout
- dying to
- eager
- earnest
- ecstatic
- emotional
- enthused
- falling all over oneself
- fiery
- glowing
- go great guns
- heartfelt
- hearty
- hot
- hot-blooded
- impassioned
- intense
- passionate
- perfervid
- pious
- religious
- responsive
- serious
- sincere
- unfeigned
- vehement
- warm
- warmhearted
- wholehearted
- zealous
- angry
- animal
- ape
- awful
- barbarous
- bloodthirsty
- blustery
- boisterous
- bold
- brutal
- brutish
- cruel
- cutthroat
- dangerous
- enraged
- fell
- feral
- ferocious
- fiery
- flipped
- frightening
- furious
- horrible
- howling
- impetuous
- infuriated
- intense
- malevolent
- malign
- murderous
- passionate
- powerful
- primitive
- raging
- raving
- relentless
- savage
- stormy
- strong
- tempestuous
- terrible
- threatening
- tigerish
- truculent
- tumultous/tumultuous
- uncontrollable
- untamed
- vehement
- venomous
- vicious
- wild
- angry
- animal
- ape
- awful
- barbarous
- bloodthirsty
- blustery
- boisterous
- bold
- brutal
- brutish
- cruel
- cutthroat
- dangerous
- enraged
- fell
- feral
- ferocious
- fiery
- flipped
- frightening
- furious
- horrible
- howling
- impetuous
- infuriated
- intense
- malevolent
- malign
- murderous
- passionate
- powerful
- primitive
- raging
- raving
- relentless
- savage
- stormy
- strong
- tempestuous
- terrible
- threatening
- tigerish
- truculent
- tumultous/tumultuous
- uncontrollable
- untamed
- vehement
- venomous
- vicious
- wild
- ablaze
- afire
- aflame
- agitable
- alight
- blazing
- burning
- choleric
- combustible
- conflagrant
- enthusiastic
- excitable
- febrile
- fervid
- fevered
- feverish
- fierce
- flaming
- flaring
- flickering
- flushed
- glowing
- heated
- hot
- hot-blooded
- hot-headed
- hot-tempered
- igneous
- ignited
- impassioned
- impetuous
- impulsive
- in flames
- inflamed
- intense
- irascible
- irritable
- madcap
- peppery
- perfervid
- precipitate
- red-hot
- spirited
- unrestrained
- vehement
- violent
- ball of fire
- big-wheel
- bullish
- cogent
- coming on strong
- commanding
- compelling
- constraining
- convincing
- dominant
- dynamic
- electric
- elemental
- energetic
- forcible
- gutsy
- mighty
- persuasive
- pithy
- potent
- powerhouse
- puissant
- punch
- punchy
- steamroller
- stringent
- strong
- take-charge
- takeover
- telling
- titanic
- vehement
- vigorous
- violent
- virile
- weighty
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