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  • noun Plural form of tormenter.

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Examples

  • Instead of cursing, try calling your tormenters jackanapes or canker-blossoms or poisonous bunch-back'd toads.

    The National Ledger - News 2010

  • Instead of cursing, try calling your tormenters jackanapes or canker-blossoms or Don't waste time saying "it," just use the letter Verse for lovers, prose for ruffians, songs for clowns.

    The Seventh Sense 2009

  • Instead of cursing, try calling your tormenters jackanapes or canker-blossoms or poisonous bunch-back'd toads.

    Impact Lab 2009

  • He even trotted out his dutiful but punditious-ly pathetic daughter Liz to do the talking head circuit to also defend said deeds — in effect, hiding querulously behind her pant suit like some latter-day “Stinky” from Abbott & Costello as he spat lame barbs at his so-called “tormenters”.

    Look 'Pon The Devil's Brow...An Impossibility... 2009

  • About him, till night-fall, persisted a circle of teasers and tormenters.

    CHAPTER XVI 2010

  • Jesus talks about turning the other cheek and ends up forgiving his tormenters himself.

    Alexander Goerlach: Truth, Opinion, and Jesus Alexander Goerlach 2011

  • Contrary to the online flash mob, Maggie does stand up to her tormenters, though, in her own sad, quiet way.

    Outrage explodes over 'diet' book for girls 2011

  • He even trotted out his dutiful but punditious-ly pathetic daughter Liz to do the talking head circuit to also defend said deeds — in effect, hiding querulously behind her pant suit like some latter-day “Stinky” from Abbott & Costello as he spat lame barbs at his so-called “tormenters”.

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • Mr. Lomax survived, and 50 years later, he tracked down and met one of his tormenters, accepting the man's unreserved apology.

    War Stories Cynthia Crossen 2010

  • A law-school graduate who never passed the bar, he articulately keeps his official tormenters at bay, even as he tries to smooth things over at home.

    Marshall Fine: Movie review: Rampart Marshall Fine 2011

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