purgatory

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This puts the upper-middle class in a kind of purgatory for financial aid.

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a temporary condition of torment or suffering; "a purgatory of drug abuse"

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noun

a temporary condition of torment or suffering; "a purgatory of drug abuse"

noun

(theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for purgatory.

noun

a temporary condition of torment or suffering; "a purgatory of drug abuse"

noun

(theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins

Example sentences

This puts the upper-middle class in a kind of purgatory for financial aid.

Well, HP supposedly used to be one of the best places to work, so maybe if you mix heaven and hell, you'll end up with purgatory.

My messages went to purgatory for about 15 minutes.

FAO amurmann - you made a slight faux pas in HN etiquette[0] and were sentenced to over 1000 days of purgatory without your knowledge.

Except for most games they won't see a re-release, and they will just drift into the binary purgatory of unrunnable titles.

I could go into permanent Godwin purgatory for listing crimes against humanity that were codified into law not all that long ago.

If you are from the lucky set of countries and have a graduate degree, you can sit in purgatory at a BigCo for 5 years and then finally have the right to quit and start your own gig.

In that case, the extensive library of non-blocking functionally will be very handy since you could build a sane continuation based interface on top of it and escape from callback purgatory.