Definition of "tormentful" [tor•ment•ful]

• Full of torment; causing, or accompanied by, torment; excruciating. (adjective)

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• "Malice, and envy, and revenge, are unquiet passions; and in what nature soever they are, they are as vexatious and tormentful to itself, as they are troublesome and mischievous to others."