Definitions
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- adverb In a
torturous fashion, or as if intorture
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a very painful manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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So many days we find ourselves crawling torturously through the writing, wondering why we choose this struggle.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » It’s all about the cheesecake 2009
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As she does she thinks of Jesús, because in the end, he is the only reason she is racing across the dry plains of Spain in this Mercedes, feeling as torturously sick as she does.
Claudia Ricci: So How Do Fiction Writers Fool Readers? Claudia Ricci 2011
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Meaning what would otherwise be a three-hour ride from Shanghai takes close to six, due to a torturously circuitous route.
Chi Tung: China's Second Tier: Where Accidental Tourism Happens Chi Tung 2011
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Those clowns tried to justify their race hatred with Biblical quotations, torturously taken out of context.
Think Progress » Mississippi Gov. Barbour Thinks Slavery Omission ‘Doesn’t Matter For Diddly’ 2010
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Meaning what would otherwise be a three-hour ride from Shanghai takes close to six, due to a torturously circuitous route.
Chi Tung: China's Second Tier: Where Accidental Tourism Happens Chi Tung 2011
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Just too damn torturously distressing on so many different levels.
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Finally, after a torturously long time, a little old woman shuffled out of the meeting room and taped a small piece of paper to the wall, right under our event results.
Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011
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You are now experiencing something impossible, torturously impossible.
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Finally, after a torturously long time, a little old woman shuffled out of the meeting room and taped a small piece of paper to the wall, right under our event results.
Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011
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As I watched, he licked at my sex, torturously long, and slow, and my gaze was fascinated by that length of pink tongue sliding down and disappearing into the damp folds of my sex, lapping at me like a cat lapped at cream, savoring me.
My Fair Succubi Jill Myles 2011
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