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. Grabien Media founder Tom Elliott:

   If CNN’s collapsing ratings weren’t enough to elicit an agonizing reappraisal of their entire situation, the planned rollout of CNN+ surely is.

2. Mustafa Qadri:

   FIFA has spent much time, money and political capital investigating alleged corruption in the Russia and Qatar World Cup bids, and agonizing over the scheduling of the tournament, but the organization has yet to demonstrate any real commitment to ensuring Qatar 2022 is not built on a foundation of exploitation and abuse.

3. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton:

   There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

4. Søren Kierkegaard, Journal 1848:

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

5. 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.

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