tormentor
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The tension comes from Odd Henderson, a schoolyard bully and tireless tormentor of Buddy, a character based on the young Capote.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Tenor Roy Hage is the amiable Volmar, Hildegard’s confidant in the monastery and baritone David Adam Moore her tormentor abbot.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025
For now, though, all this means many Tories zoom from gloom to doom, their grinning tormentor showing them no mercy this time.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2024
But you say, he's important because he’s his redemption and also his tormentor.
From Salon • May 27, 2024
I explained that it was Edmund, my childhood tormentor, and described his menacing ways.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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