anguishing

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He must have had an unconscious conviction that the reality could not be half as bad, not half as anguishing, appalling, and vengeful as the created terror of his imagination.

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  • After two weeks of anguishing debate, Congress passed and President Bush signed the enormous plan to save the financial industry and prop up the economy in hopes of avoiding an unthinkable free fall with Election Day just a month away. —  Durangoherald.com
  • He must have had an unconscious conviction that the reality could not be half as bad, not half as anguishing, appalling, and vengeful as the created terror of his imagination. —  Lord Jim
  • However, Juventus aren't in the best position to uplift themselves from their anguishing situation. —  Soccer Blogs - latest posts
  • An anguishing idiom that unfortunately is true for the Lely and Fort Myers-Dunbar football teams tonight.
  • And again the anguishing stand in the Subway. —  Working With the Working Woman
 

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Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

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