stormy
/ˈstɔɹmi/ adjective B1- Of or pertaining to storms.
- Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with strong winds and heavy rain. · a stormy season or a stormy day
- Proceeding from violent agitation or fury. · a stormy sound or stormy shocks
- Violent; passionate; rough. · stormy passions a stormy relationship
Comparative stormier · Superlative stormiest
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She was in tears, and, strange as it was, in spite of the emotions he felt at the sight of these tears, he looked also at Madame de Villefort, and it appeared to him as if a slight gloomy smile had passed over her thin lips, like a meteor seen passing inauspiciously between two clouds in a stormy sky.
Marilla’s impassioned grief, breaking all the bounds of natural reserve and lifelong habit in its stormy rush, she could comprehend better than Anne’s tearless agony.
I am afraid, my dear Colonel, that you must regret the hour that you took in such a stormy petrel as I am.”
You are the stormy petrel of crime, Watson.
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