Meanings
adverbtorturingly (comparative more torturingly, superlative most torturingly)
comparative more torturingly · superlative most torturingly
- So as to torture.
An host of furies Could not have baited me more torturingly , More rudely , or more most unnaturally!
c. 1619–1623, John Ford, “The Lawes of Candy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii1 more example
The ground soon becomes torturingly hard, and she is bitten all over by insects. The worst thing is the cold. It creeps in upon her, and she cringes into a ball to escape from it.
2015, Michael Frayn, A Very Private Life - Extremely; painfully
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