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excruciating
in
Lord of the Flies
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- There was another noise to attend to now, a deep grumbling noise, as though the forest itself were angry with him, a somber noise across which the ululations were scribbled excruciatingly as on slate.†
p. 196.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(excruciating) extreme -- typically extremely painful or unpleasant
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)