(adj.) impelled by physical force especially against resistance; 'forcible entry'; 'a real cop would get physical'; 'strong-arm tactics' .
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None came, and her next words seemed the more forcible to her, falling clear upon the dark silence. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
No direct answer could have been half so forcible. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
The latter immediately took the man by the shoulder and asked him, in language more forcible than polite, what he was doing there. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
Spying, informing, constant investigations of everybody and everything must become the rule where there is a forcible attempt to moralize society from the top. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
Finally he resorted to a forcible-feeble display of violence. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
There is a dreadful amount of forcible scrubbing and arranging and pocketing implied in some socialisms. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
The means commonly employed, however, the imprisonment of all the refractory members, one would think, were forcible enough. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
A person may be in such a condition that forcible feeding or enforced confinement is necessary for his own good. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
Surely I am not misstating its position when I say that forcible suppression was the creed of this Commission. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
The intellectual man has been loath to come to grips with the forcible man. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Barrande has made forcible remarks to precisely the same effect. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
All these things point to a lonely and forcible mind. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.