adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a hurtful remark
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It's hurtful when you see good actors out of work and the way in which their confidence is corroded by the system.
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It was coming out too bound up in hurtful things.
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Mrs Browning was as aware of this as Wilson and indeed appeared to find nothing hurtful in mentioning it.
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Sufferers from Parkinson's disease are many, and their problems are hateful and hurtful .
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Television plays hurtful tricks on people who watch it long enough.
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That was very brutal and hurtful when I felt down.
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There was nothing remotely subversive about it, as far as I could see: hurtful , yes, but not subversive.
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This deliberate emphasis on the young people's unreliable and hurtful past relationships poses a dilemma for residential workers.