torment
verb (used with object)
to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain.
tormentedly
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a word derived from
torment.
Example Sentences
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His upwrithing portrait tormentedly stares at us in beseeching horror.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 22, 2019
She then backs away, but at length her guilty feelings are tormentedly rooted out.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before her bullring goring, their relationship was the reverse of Benigno and Alicia's--relentlessly, often tormentedly verbal, because each was still emotionally involved with a previous lover.
From Time Magazine Archive
In such a circle, for days, she had been tormentedly moving, prowling up and down, comparing incomparables.
From The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James
His head was thrown back, and his brows worked up and down tormentedly.
From Widdershins by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
