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Definition of Torturesome
1. Adjective. Extremely painful.
Similar to: Painful
Derivative terms: Torture, Torture
Lexicographical Neighbors of Torturesome
Literary usage of Torturesome
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1914)
"on the verge of collapse, must have found them not only torturesome but nauseating.
But from the window of one of these cars he discovered the plains of the ..."
2. Theatre Arts by Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit (1921)
"I have sat through rehearsals at the Belasco Theatre when a full-dress rehearsal
was as long and torturesome as an initial rehearsal. ..."
3. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1878)
"Professor Vera had before him, however, the example of the author, who, in his
own introduction, indulges in some very torturesome vivisections. ..."
4. Poet Lore (1905)
"The more blinding and misleading the mistake, the more triumphant the truth; —
the more torturesome the doubt, the greater the demand for ..."
5. Sharps and Flats by Eugene Field (1900)
"Let us settle these differences, my brothers. MR. CABLE (rising amid applause)—
Gentlemen, it is with the most torturesome diffidence that I address ..."
6. Police Abuse and Killings of Street Children in India by Arvind Ganesan, Patricia Gossman (1996)
"The vulnerability of human rights assumes a traumatic, torturesome poignancy when
the violent violation is perpetrated by the police arm of the state whose ..."
7. Vanity Square: A Story of Fifth Avenue Life by Edgar Saltus (1906)
"... tortures and of the pleasure that it would give him to see the bishop undergoing
the strangest and most torturesome of the lot. The evil mood passed. ..."
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