violently

Adverb

Meaning

in a violent manner

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A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. George S. Patton

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear. Dave Barry

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell the truth. H. L. Mencken

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. Alexei Sayle

In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects. Vitruvius

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