violently

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

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2010

Violently antivocational, the college rejects early specialization even though most students go on to graduate school.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 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