adverb

• 1Using force or violence.

  ‘no one will be forcibly evicted’

  More example sentences

  • ‘In fact over the past ten days about 290,000 people have been forcibly expelled from Kosovo.’
  • ‘Executions frequently follow a mock trial held in front of forcibly assembled villagers.’
  • ‘The new conversation must be about how to achieve stability, not how we can forcibly pacify the place.’
  • ‘Our offices, our shops, our industries, our businesses, our trades are all forcibly closed.’
  • ‘The action was opposed by Morocco, which forcibly removed the boundary stones laid by the Spaniards.’
  • ‘Smaller fish will be forcibly removed from their domain by bullying tactics.’
  • ‘They were then forcibly returned to Iran, where they immediately disappeared.’
  • ‘The ship that was heading for the most logical port of call in Indonesia was forcibly routed to Australia.’
  • ‘These kids at the orphanage are from troubled homes, often forcibly removed by the state.’
  • ‘Officers found evidence that the family was forcibly kept in the house, including a padlock on a bedroom door, he said.’
  • ‘Katie left, taking Sam forcibly with her.’
  • ‘Rose has just given birth out of wedlock and has her son forcibly taken for adoption.’
  • ‘The accused, after bringing the minor girls to Delhi, used to forcibly employ them as maid servants.’
  • ‘Beefy security forces moved in and forcibly dragged more than a dozen protesters out.’
  • ‘Since they had been forcibly kept out, the people could not see what had been going on in the area.’
  • ‘There were demands for asylum seekers to be forcibly tested for HIV and hepatitis.’
  • ‘Women were forcibly unveiled.’
  • ‘The kingdom was forcibly annexed by Prussia in 1866.’
  • ‘I haven't forcibly led anyone into a store, I never made them buy anything.’
  • ‘Haitian human rights organizations have repeatedly requested that Constant be forcibly returned to Haiti.’

  Synonyms

  by force, against one's will, under protest, compulsorily, under compulsion, under coercion, of necessity

  forcefully, vigorously, powerfully, potently, dynamically, energetically, assertively, heartily, eagerly, zealously, strenuously, aggressively

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  1. 1.1In a forceful way; convincingly.
     ‘they argued forcibly against the proposal’
     More example sentences

     • ‘However, they have persisted in forcibly bringing their message to all sorts of international financial meetings abroad.’
     • ‘There are times I have to forcibly restrain myself from correcting other people's emails.’
     • ‘Overall is that air of delicious abandon - Bohemianism - that strikes forcibly the elemental in your nature.’
     • ‘What struck me so forcibly about the World Horror Convention was the sheer friendliness of the crowd.’
     • ‘Christmas 2002 is now a fading memory, but it was then that the virtual church was brought forcibly to my attention.’
     • ‘And though I had read it many times before, I realised then that it is written as history - that came to me very forcibly.’
     • ‘The records may forcibly bring to the attention of the staff and the patient the fact that patient behavior is lawful, and not erratic.’
     • ‘The same should be said, even more forcibly, of Michael Vaughan for England's captain contributed a measly seven runs.’
     • ‘A tall bearded man soon entered reception and forcibly grinned at me.’
     • ‘In Australia, the opera companies of Sydney and Melbourne were forcibly merged.’
     • ‘All this is immediately evident in O'Sullivan's account and the reader is almost forcibly reminded of Homer.’