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torturous
adjective as in tormenting
Strongest matches
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Raising the incidents on social media feels torturous when it means being threatened.
Throughout it all, the Biden administration, with allies Egypt and Qatar, engaged in torturous talks to reach a cessation of hostilities.
Officials still know little about the extent of the Portuguese Bend land movement on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, leaving residents in a torturous limbo.
For Erice, a master, cinema works as a revelatory force that can illuminate our truest feelings and yearnings, despite the efforts of some of his characters to escape their torturous pasts.
Its torturous racial etiquette often prompts epithets as surely as hypocrisy prompts hostility.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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