Antonyms for agonizingag·o·niz·ing

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1. agonizing, agonising, excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous, torturesomeadjective

   extremely painful

   Antonyms:
   painless

   Synonyms:
   harrowing, torturing, excruciating, agonising, torturesome, torturous

How to use agonizing in a sentence?

1. Søren Kierkegaard, Journal 1848:

   Of all tyrannies democracy is the most agonizing, the most inane, the absolute fall of everything great and elevated.

2. Valeria Ponomarova:

   I turned and just fell on my knees and I just screamed with the most agonizing cry, i didn’t know [whose drone] it was. Our forces, or the enemy.

3. Iris Murdoch:

   Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

4. Amnesty International:

   Dozens of people suffered a slow and agonizing death at the hands of government forces that should have been protecting them, these unlawful killings must be investigated and all those responsible brought to justice.

5. Mitch McConnell:

   I remember during the tax bill, people were agonizing over whether one part of the tax bill was permanent or not. I said,' Look, the only way the tax bill is permanent depends on the next election,' because people have different views about taxes in the two parties and they approach it differently when they get in power.

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