agony column
Americannoun
noun
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a magazine or newspaper feature in which advice is offered to readers who have sent in letters about their personal problems
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a part of a newspaper containing advertisements for lost relatives, personal messages, etc
Etymology
Origin of agony column
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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She hosted a Radio 2 programme, Katie and Friends, and wrote an agony column for the TV Times for nearly two decades.
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2018
Theodore might be Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts — the cynical newspaperman consigned to the agony column — except that neither he nor writer-director Spike Jonze has anything so fashionable as satire in mind.
From Time • Oct. 12, 2013
No, it's not an agony column or advice for the love sick, but a look at the human heart, the organ that we depend on from the moment we're born to our last breath.
From The Guardian • Feb. 14, 2011
When it comes to the performance and wellbeing of Mitchell Johnson, the Australian newspapers are starting to read like an agony column: What Are We Going To Do About Mitch?
From The Guardian • Dec. 2, 2010
Why, some one in the club has been using the agony column.
From The Lure of the Mask by Fisher, Harrison
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