torment
verb (used with object)
to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain.
tormentingly
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a word derived from
torment.
Example Sentences
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And, tormentingly, there are only a handful of anecdotes about his life.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2011
At this time the shark darts tormentingly about the whale's head.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her hat was the breast and wing of a red bird tormentingly pierced by two hatpins.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Every day, the little gray-furred beasts would scurry tormentingly through the branches that hung outside the nursery windows, which threw all Penelope’s attempts to teach odd and even numbers into chaos.
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
The women were lovely and lovable to the last degree, but cautious and tormentingly self-restrained when it came to loving.
From The Ramblin' Kid by Earl Wayland Bowman
