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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 James, Henry

His head was thrown back, and his brows worked up and down tormentedly.

From Widdershins by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]