tormentor
noun
, ˈtȯr-ˌmen-
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Synonyms
baiter, harasser, heckler, mocker, needler, persecutor, quiz, quizzer, ridiculer, taunter, tease, teaser, torturer
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The males stood upright and charged at their tormentors, swinging their arms over their heads. — National Geographic, "Jane Goodall’s original tale of chimpanzees still astonishes today," 17 Apr. 2019 Lisey Landon, sending her sadistic tormentor into interdimensional purgatory with a single savage blow from a ceremonial silver shovel? Beach book. — Jennifer Weiner, EW.com, "Jennifer Weiner pens essay on beach reads for EW: 'I've tried to make peace with the label'," 17 June 2019 During the Championship campaign, Sheffield were Norwich's tormentors, taking four points off the champions, including a 2-2 draw at Carrow Road. — SI.com, "8 Potential Relegation 'Six-Pointers' as Premier League Fixtures are Announced," 13 June 2019 In all honesty, your sisters probably went from being your tormentors to your best friends. — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, "20 Things You'll Only Understand If You Have a Sister," 27 Mar. 2019 Grenell, meanwhile, seemed an ideal Trumpist standard-bearer — a former aide to national security adviser John Bolton, a Fox News talking head and an inveterate tormentor of journalists and Democrats on social media. — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, "The U.S. ambassador in Germany flies the Trumpist flag," 5 June 2018 Tom Bower, an investigative journalist, had been Maxwell’s chief tormentor for years. — Les Hinton, WSJ, "Five Best: Les Hinton on the Giants of the Press," 28 Dec. 2018 His Democratic tormentors, including California’s 85-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein, don’t want the drama to end. — George Melloan, WSJ, "Is ‘First, Kill All the Lawyers’ the Democrats’ New Credo?," 12 Oct. 2018 After four down years, the Braves are back and ready to reprise their role of perpetual Mets tormentor, a position Atlanta held during the late 1990s and early 2000s. — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, "‘Nobody’s Happy’ After the Mets Waste Another Great Jacob deGrom Start," 13 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'tormentor.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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