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Torquemada
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(Noun) Metaphorically, a torturer in a non-physical sense. To prolong someone's mental humiliation/suffering/anguish out of personal amusement and/or anger.Usage: The Nixon Administration became L. Patrick Gray III's Torquemada when, because of his honesty about its involvement in Watergate, it decided to let him "Twist, twist, slowly in the wind."
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Torquemada, Tomas detorquemadian
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