adj. 25B6; adjective
hurtful words : UPSETTING, distressing, wounding, painful; unkind, cruel, nasty, mean, malicious, spiteful; cutting, barbed; informal catty, bitchy.
this is hurtful to the interests of women : DETRIMENTAL, harmful, damaging, injurious, disadvantageous, unfavourable, prejudicial, deleterious, ruinous.