Crossword clues for ferociously
ferociously
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ferocious \Fe*ro"cious\, a. [L. ferox, -ocis, fierce: cf. F. f['e]roce. See Ferocity.] Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion.
The humbled power of a ferocious enemy.
--Lowth.
Syn: Ferocious, Fierce, Savage, Barbarous.
Usage: When these words are applied to human feelings or conduct, ferocious describes the disposition; fierce, the haste and violence of an act; barbarous, the coarseness and brutality by which it was marked; savage, the cruel and unfeeling spirit which it showed. A man is ferocious in his temper, fierce in his actions, barbarous in the manner of carrying out his purposes, savage in the spirit and feelings expressed in his words or deeds. -- Fe*ro"cious*ly, adv. -- Fe*ro"cious*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 In a ferocious manner, particularly violent and aggressive. 2 intensely or extremely.
WordNet
adv. in a physically fierce manner; "silence broken by dogs barking ferociously"; "they fought fiercely" [syn: fiercely]
Usage examples of "ferociously".
On an alien planet like Anicca, people clung to such symbols ferociously.
He felt it start in his toes, rising higher and higher, his belly on fire, hips thrusting ferociously, almost brutally, his hands pinning her to him, while he erupted with jets of hot cream, filling her, triggering an intense orgasm so that her body gripped and tightened, milking his until he collapsed over her, spent and momentarily sated.
He talks ferociously and grandiloquently but is, of course, an arrant coward.
Suddenly in a better mood and ferociously hungry, he went back to the counter and bought two Big Macs for himself, and then, when Julia seemed done with her meal, he bought an ice cream cone for them to share, and then, when the opportunity seemed too good to pass up, he stopped on the way home at the drugstore, grabbed Julia and the ladybug mask, and went straight to the photo booth at the back.
Jack, ferociously, mopping his wounded nose with his handkerchief, while Nannie rushed to get water and court-plaster.
Like most New Orleanian Creoles, they clung ferociously to their French heritage and to the culture that was the last remaining tie to the prewar life they had once known.
In reverence of the great Dr Lowji Daruwalla, rigidity of the spine was a habit ferociously maintained by the old Parsi steward Mr Sethna.
A large man, with a giant face and eyebrows and jowls that shook ferociously when he talked, Ervin regularly quoted from Shakespeare, the Bible and the Bill of Rights, and he carried around a copy of the U.
The Zouave, wholly careless or unconscious of the fact that he was an incarnation of Africa to these raw peasants, who had never before stirred beyond the provinces where they were born, went on taking the tickets, and tossing the woollen rugs to the passing figures, and pointing ferociously to the gangway.
He was wearing what looked like a uniform straight out of the Ruritanian army and was scowling ferociously.
He was scowling ferociously when the senior Byzantine captain of the seven carracks that had just come in from Constantinople arrived.
He looked at them both somewhat ferociously, as Victoria wondered what he had to say to them, and Olivia nodded.
And he had focused on the Satrap, a man loathed if anything more ferociously by the Mu Family than by the Triads, since it was the Satrap who had per-sonally ordered the execution of the Gui Tretender and of his devoted Duke.
His face and thick muscular arms were speckled with blood thrown from the wounds he had inflicted on his victims, and his mouth was wide open as he laughed ferociously, showing his carious teeth.
A man and a vodyanoi were arguing ferociously beside it, while the two cowed donkeys drawing it hung their heads, trying not to be noticed.