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- noun Plural form of
tormenter .
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Examples
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Instead of cursing, try calling your tormenters jackanapes or canker-blossoms or poisonous bunch-back'd toads.
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Instead of cursing, try calling your tormenters jackanapes or canker-blossoms or Don't waste time saying "it," just use the letter Verse for lovers, prose for ruffians, songs for clowns.
The Seventh Sense 2009
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Instead of cursing, try calling your tormenters jackanapes or canker-blossoms or poisonous bunch-back'd toads.
Impact Lab 2009
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He even trotted out his dutiful but punditious-ly pathetic daughter Liz to do the talking head circuit to also defend said deeds — in effect, hiding querulously behind her pant suit like some latter-day “Stinky” from Abbott & Costello as he spat lame barbs at his so-called “tormenters”.
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About him, till night-fall, persisted a circle of teasers and tormenters.
CHAPTER XVI 2010
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Jesus talks about turning the other cheek and ends up forgiving his tormenters himself.
Alexander Goerlach: Truth, Opinion, and Jesus Alexander Goerlach 2011
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Contrary to the online flash mob, Maggie does stand up to her tormenters, though, in her own sad, quiet way.
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He even trotted out his dutiful but punditious-ly pathetic daughter Liz to do the talking head circuit to also defend said deeds — in effect, hiding querulously behind her pant suit like some latter-day “Stinky” from Abbott & Costello as he spat lame barbs at his so-called “tormenters”.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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Mr. Lomax survived, and 50 years later, he tracked down and met one of his tormenters, accepting the man's unreserved apology.
War Stories Cynthia Crossen 2010
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A law-school graduate who never passed the bar, he articulately keeps his official tormenters at bay, even as he tries to smooth things over at home.
Marshall Fine: Movie review: Rampart Marshall Fine 2011
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