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torturesome

adj. extremely painful [syn: agonizing, agonising, excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous]

Usage examples of "torturesome".

Unbidden, the torturesome, clangorous chords of the “Ninth Sonata” began to sound in his mind.

She didn't know, but she knew it helped make everything torturesome and confusing—and she couldn't have borne to enter the litter tonight.