torture
noun
the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
torturingly
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a word derived from
torture.
Example Sentences
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Or the torturingly slow rate at which you're required to walk, as if wading through treacle?
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2012
What kind of justice was this which delayed so long, so torturingly long?
From How Women Love (Soul Analysis) by Max Simon Nordau
He understood her less, and valued her more than before, a thousand times more, achingly, torturingly more.
From The Golden Silence by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
Poor Charles Kean was an especial object of Lewes's detestation, and was accordingly pelted and peppered with torturingly clever and piquant pasquinades in the form of criticism.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy
He was there a torturingly long time; but at length he came out to the room she waited in, and crossed it on his way downstairs.
From Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy
