(superl.) Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce wind.
(superl.) Vehement in anger or cruelty; ready or eager to kill or injure; of a nature to inspire terror; ferocious.
(superl.) Excessively earnest, eager, or ardent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
(2) Yves was the vulnerable, suffering artist and Pierre the fiercely controlling protector: a man who, in Lespert's film, is painfully aware of his public image – "the pimp who's found his all-star hooker".
(3) Some business groups have been lobbying fiercely against the reform, though others support it.
(4) As Greece pleads with its eurozone creditors for more time in meeting its fiscal adjustment targets, Dombrovskis is a fierce champion of surgical austerity applied quickly and ruthlessly.
(5) Despite its dominance, the PAP continues to fiercely restrict freedom of assembly and speech.
(6) Recruitment has not returned to pre-credit crunch levels, and there is fierce competition for new jobs.
(7) And in Colorado the fiercely anti-immigration conservative and former presidential candidate Ted Tancredo was comfortably overcome by a more moderate former congressman, Bob Beauprez, in the primary to choose the Republican candidate for the state's governor.
(8) Andrea Dworkin, who has died aged 58, was a feminist who came to represent the fierce debate on pornography and sexual violence.
(9) In the past fortnight protesters have found themselves caught in the middle of fierce gun battles between regime forces and defected soldiers who have been guarding the main protest camp since March.
(10) The last of these come into force in 2014, and after fierce resistance from the larger operators, Kroes is not proposing any more price reductions.
(11) Thus in your own words you have said why it was utterly inappropriate for you to use the platform of a Pac hearing in this way.” He suggested that many professionals were “in despair at the lack of understanding and cheap haranguing which characterise your manner” after a series of hearings at which Hodge has led fierce interrogations of senior business figures and others.
(12) Allegations that British soldiers murdered insurgents and mutilated their bodies after a fierce firefight in Iraq were roundly rejected by an official inquiry, which also found that a number of prisoners were abused and that troops breached the Geneva convention.
(13) So there will no doubt be another fierce battle next year over this issue.
(14) There's something very earnest about the build up to this MLS Cup final, as if the battle on the field between Sporting Kansas City and Real Salt Lake starts with a competition to see which team can "respect" the other one more fiercely.
(15) Cameron is caught between fierce opposition to reform on his own benches, Labour criticism of the bill, and the determination of his deputy Nick Clegg to press ahead with a reform that has been delayed for 100 years.
(16) Liverpool were restricted to shots from the edge of the area throughout the opening half, mainly from Alberto who went close with one curling effort and had fierce drive parried by the goalkeeper Mark Oxley.
(17) However, City sources said that SABMiller is likely to launch a fierce defence against a deal and could instead look to combine with Diageo , the British owner of Guinness and Johnnie Walker whisky.
(18) Tesco’s accounting scandal has led to concerns about the way the sector handles payments from suppliers for promoting products or hitting sales targets, and UK grocers are operating under fierce competition from discounters such as the German company Aldi which has reported a 65% rise in profits in the UK.
(19) Liverpool did not begin like a side who believed a top-four finish was beyond them and continued to apply fierce pressure.
(20) Sitting in the Khartoum restaurant as the fierce late-afternoon sun intrudes through the windows, Lubna dismisses the notion that western praise might be a drawback in a country like Sudan.
Untamed
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In some ways, the Gandolfini performance that his fans may savour most is his voice work in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (2009), the cult screen version of Maurice Sendak 's picture book classic – he voiced Carol, one of the wild things, an untamed, foul-mouthed figure.
(2) Off message David Davis, untamed Tory SAS man, now living rough in the political wilderness.
(3) Plasma glucose concentrations were elevated during the first week in the untamed goats.
(4) Chapter 1: imagine your hopes and dreams are a galloping stallion, wild and untamed.
(5) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a poem that succeeds through a series of vivid contrasts: standard English contrasting with colloquial speech; the devotion and virtue of the young knight contrasting with the growling threats of his green foe; exchanges of courtly love contrasting with none-too-subtle sexual innuendo; exquisite robes and priceless crowns contrasting with spurting blood and the steaming organs of butchered animals; polite, indoor society contrasting with the untamed, unpredictable outdoors.
(6) Charles Kennedy: an open, untamed personality at the heart of the Lib Dems Read more “OK, well, so.
(7) Further, for News Corp to buy into such an untamed media property is to risk ruining it by making it corporate and by definition 'uncool'.
(8) This had felt untameable well before the end and he will depart South Africa, undeservedly, on a sour note.
(9) The route becomes untamed towards Pine Lodge, perfect for a live music jam at Ziggy’s , and the gravelly trip out to the Cape Recife point and lighthouse is surely worth the journey.
(10) The country’s internet regulator has repeatedly warned that an untamed cyberspace would pose a risk to domestic security and the government should decide who to allow into “its house”.
(11) Ice zombies … and worse Meanwhile, something unpalatable is happening beyond the wall that separates Westeros from the untamed polar regions beyond.
(12) Photograph: Lisa Ricciotti It is the work of Algerian-born French architect Rudy Ricciotti , a tempestuous and provocative iconoclast described by designer Philippe Starck as "a clairvoyant, untamable wild animal".
(13) I meet as many people coming to me frustrated by the unresponsive state as the untamed market.
(14) Across the channel, Jean Luc Mélenchon, who heads a grassroots movement La France Insoumise or Untamed France, could be on the verge of making the second round in the French presidential election .
(15) In Achin, Isis members have access to mines, timber, opium, an untamed border with Pakistan – and the same nearly impenetrable mountains that US warplanes have pounded since the beginning of the war.
(16) The road into Mexico's Tierra Caliente winds down through pine forests into a fertile paradise where tropical fruit seem to burst from the ground, before climbing again into the mountains of the untamed sierra.
(17) Effects of MS4101 on emotional behaviour in untamed cats were studied and compared with those of diazepam.
(18) And it's not only nature that's untamed in the movie.
(19) Nonetheless, building on the untamed green space and moving out the poor will happen in tandem .
(20) On the drive in we'd stopped for the night in Cody to watch an amateur rodeo with bronco-busting cowboys battling against untamed horses and clinging to the backs of very annoyed bulls.