Meanings
- not comparableSomewhat tortured.
Was that really her making that low, hungry, almost semitortured sound deep down in her throat?
2012, Penny Jordan, A Little Revenge: The Mistress Assignment\Lover by Deception, →ISBN2 more examples
One of the cleverest--and most instructive for the uninitiated--bits is from a fictitious play called Shut Up and Listen, a play in which nobody talks but the semitortured artist character that Nutter wrote for himself.
1988 September 16, Diana Spinrad, “Oh My . . . Nuts! A Musical Tribute to the Late Great Mark Nutter”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016And thus began what is by far the most horrendous chain of events in my young, semitortured life.
2010, Megan McCafferty, The Complete Jessica Darling Series, →ISBN
Origin
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