tempest-tost

Adjective

tempest-tossed (comparative more tempest-tossed, superlative most tempest-tossed)

1. (poetic) Battered by a storm or storms.
   • When the dark storm and the howling blast sweep with their wintry pinions over its troubled bosom, I shall think of the rocking ship and the tempest-tossed sailor, whose home is on the faithless sea.1842, George French Angas, A Ramble in Malta and Sicily, in the Autumn of 1841, Cambridge University Press, published 2013, →ISBN, page 168
2. (figuratively) Beset by adversity or fraught with dissension.
   • Divorced from Allan Wayne after a tempest-tossed marriage notable for locking each other out and scares over alleged kidnapings^([sic]) of their daughter, she married Arnold Grant in 1962.1963, Cleveland Amory, Earl Blackwell, Celebrity Register: An Irreverent Compendium of American Quotable Notables, Harper & Row, published 1963, page 454