The Only Use of
vehement
in
The Great Gatsby
- As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host, but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way, and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements, that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table — the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.
p. 42.4vehemently = forcefully or intensely
Definition:
marked by extreme intensity -- especially emotion such as anger