tortured

Adjective

 * 1) Having been subjected to torture, mental or physical.
 * 2) Involving suffering and difficulty.
 * 3) Of literature, burdened by unnecessary complexity, obfuscation, abstruseness, etc.
 * 1) Of literature, burdened by unnecessary complexity, obfuscation, abstruseness, etc.
 * 1) Of literature, burdened by unnecessary complexity, obfuscation, abstruseness, etc.