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
The cover was dense, the slope steep and tormentedly broken.
From Hoof and Claw by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
The Lord Mayor's hands tightened on the staff; he was struggling tormentedly with himself, in vain.
From Naudsonce by H. Beam Piper
