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She has a tempestuous relationship with her mother.tempestuous = turbulent (emotionally violent)
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It is their third breakup in two tempestuous years.
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She's new at the company and hasn't yet learned to navigate the tempestuous sea of its office politics.tempestuous = turbulent
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At the moment, the tempestuous quarrels have subsided; only Dussel and the van Daans are still at loggerheads. (source)tempestuous = emotionally turbulent
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A shadow fronted him tempestuously. "You shut up, you fat slug!" (source)tempestuously = in a rough, turbulent manner
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The fiddlers begin a swift, tempestuous tune, and Keenan takes my hip in one hand and my fingers in the other. (source)tempestuous = turbulent
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Mrs. Worthington must pay for her disgrace, and her daughter is far too bold and tempestuous a creature. (source)tempestuous = strongly turbulent -- as of a storm or unstable emotions
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After all, there was the Marne — that classic line of defence where everything must come to a standstill, the way it does in the fermata of the second section of Chopin's B minor scherzo, in a stormy tempo of quavers going on and on, more and more tempestuously, until the closing chord — at which point the Germans would retreat to their own border as vigorously as they had advanced; leading to the end of the war and an Allied victory.† (source)
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But Mama had put in many years of appeasing tempestuousness or staying out of its way, and she very likely had more trouble as a result of one of Simon's visits than she ever did with her companions.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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The problem was that so many who criticized his writings had never bothered to read them, Adams said. Some misunderstood them, others willfully misrepresented them. Either way, he had been made the victim of "tempestuous abuse." (source)tempestuous = violent
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But unpopularity is often a compliment—and Guenever, though she lived tempestuously and finally died in an unreconciled sort of way—she was not cut out for religion, as Lancelot was—was never insignificant.† (source)
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Beside this is a matching engraving of James McDermott, shown in the overblown collar of those days, with his hair in a forward-swept arrangement reminiscent of Napoleon's, and meant to suggest tempestuousness.† (source)
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Abbe' Mably says that the popular government, so tempestuous elsewhere, caused no disorders in the members of the Achaean republic, because it was tempered by the laws of the confederacy. (source)tempestuous = violently turbulent
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She handled her subjects agreeably, and they were, perhaps, more worthy of attention than the high discourse upon Guelfs and Ghibellines which was proceeding tempestuously at the other end of the room.† (source)
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The boy, also in due time, passed from the forecastle to the cabin, spent a tempestuous manhood, and returned from his world-wanderings, to grow old, and die, and mingle his dust with the natal earth. (source)tempestuous = turbulent
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The rain beat strongly against the panes, the wind blew tempestuously: "One lies there," I thought, "who will soon be beyond the war of earthly elements.† (source)
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