Brooding
Brooding adjective - Deeply or seriously thoughtful.
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Tormenting and brooding are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tormenting" instead an adjective "Brooding".
Tormenting
Tormenting adjective - Hard to accept or bear especially emotionally.
Brooding and tormenting are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Brooding" instead an adjective "Tormenting".
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- The Fourth Doctor is generally one of the nicer ones but he loves tormenting people for fun (occasionally going very much too far), and generally has a 'difficult' personality, prone to sudden intensely dark moods and periods of brooding interspersed with attention-seeking and selfish unreliability.
Source: Jerkass / Live-Action TV
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