semitortured

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

"One of the cleverest--and most instructive for the uninitiated--bits is from a fictitious play called Shut Up and Listen, a play in which nobody talks but the semitortured artist character that Nutter wrote for himself."
"And thus began what is by far the most horrendous chain of events in my young, semitortured life."
"Was that really her making that low, hungry, almost semitortured sound deep down in her throat?"

From semi- + tortured.

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