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torturous
[ tawr-cher-uhs ]
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- tortur·ous·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of torturous1
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Example Sentences
Rick better get used to torturous trials because they are never going away.
Virginians worried about their scandal-plagued governor, torturous traffic, and government furloughs can breathe a little easier.
The results are tedious rather than amusing, and the whole thing feels dated and torturous.
A 16th-century iron corset looks precisely as frightening and torturous as it sounds.
Torturous force feedings and hunger strikes at Guantánamo Bay are a sign of just how desperate the men there are.
He crouched, nerves and muscles tense, controled in spite of the torturous cloud of scalding vapor that pressed close to him.
When all was in readiness a Negro sergeant in the British service was seized, and put to a torturous death.
In an iron cage called the Cage of St. Michel, a torturous contrivance, state prisoners used to be confined.
Owing to the torturous mountain roads we were close to this building before observing it.
What happened after that, though it lasted seven long and torturous years, is fairly familiar to the American people.
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