All 3 Uses
excruciating
in
Sweet Far Thing
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- Miss McCleethy and I perch on the velvet settee in the small parlor used to receive guests, listening to the ormolu clock on the mantel tick off the excruciating silence in seconds.†
Chpt 2
- On the curb, an organ-grinder moves the bellows of his instrument with excruciating slowness.†
Chpt 2 *
- We move forward by excruciating inches, the courtier calling the name of each girl in the procession.†
Chpt 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(excruciating) extreme -- typically extremely painful or unpleasant
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)