torturingly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

torturing +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

torturingly (comparative more torturingly, superlative most torturingly)

  1. So as to torture.
    • 2015, Michael Frayn, A Very Private Life:
      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.
    • c. 1619–1623, John Ford, “The Lavves of Candy”, in Comedies and Tragedies [], London: [] Humphrey Robinson, [], and for Humphrey Moseley [], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii:
      An host of furies Could not have baited me more torturingly , More rudely , or more most unnaturally!
  2. Extremely; painfully

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