The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tormenting \Tor*ment"ing\, a. Causing torment; as, a tormenting dream. -- Tor*ment"ing*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
adv. In a tormenting manner.
Usage examples of "tormentingly".
The pain of his grief accumulated in his soul like a ripe abscess, and became clearer to him every moment in his tormentingly conscious thought.
Something was being communicated to me, mutely but tormentingly, from my silent companion, and was as if penetrating me.
But never, never did I cease to love that earth, and even on that night, as I was parting from her, I perhaps loved her more tormentingly than ever before.
Raskolnikov that this senseless delirium echoed so sadly and tormentingly in his memory, that the impression of these feverish dreams refused to go away for so long.
Always in the first part of the dream he was a stranger with foreknowledge, trying desperately to find Brendan and Rebecca Doyle before they got on the bike, or at least before Doyle could gun the old Honda up the curling onramp from Beach Boulevard onto the Santa Ana Freeway—and always he was unsuccessful, screeching his car around the last corner only in time, tormentingly, to see the old bike speed up, lean into the curve and disappear around the landscaped bend.