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[ UK /vˈi‍əmənt/ ]
[ US /ˈviəmənt, vəˈhimənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. characterized by great force or energy
    a vehement defense
    vehement clapping
    vehement deluges of rain
  2. marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid
    vehement dislike
    violent passions
    in a tearing rage
    fierce loyalty

How To Use vehement In A Sentence

  • The ayatollah broke with Iran's clerical leadership and became a vehement critic, denouncing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and calling the postelection crackdown the work of a dictatorship. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • Despite vehement opposition from his family, he quit school and became an actor.
  • These verbs mean to reprimand or criticize angrily or vehemently.
  • Now that's change for a man who in the past has been vehemently antitechnology. The Sun
  • Dace claimed it was in the hope of catching sight of his brother --- a charge Mikel vehemently denied. TREASON KEEP
  • Because this being all our hope, against this point did the devil make a vehement stand, and at one time he was wholly subverting it, at another his word was that it was "past already;" which also Paul writing to Timothy called a gangrene, I mean, this wicked doctrine, and those that brought it in he branded, saying, NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
  • He was at that time "a vehement anti-ministerialist," but, after the invasion of Switzerland, a more vehement anti-Gallican, and still more intensely an anti-Jacobin: The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838
  • Despite vehement opposition from his family, he quit school and became an actor.
  • With vehement signs and maffling cries he showed us he was come out from Hayil to seek me.
  • What a dreary mourning it is to dwell upon those vehement protests of dead affection! Vanity Fair
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