Thesaurus / hurtful
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This full-stop disconnection is unexpected, perplexing and hurtful.
ASK AMY: FRIEND FAVORS EXCLUSIVE GROUP OVER FRIENDSHIPSAMY DICKINSONNOVEMBER 29, 2020WASHINGTON POSTBut, even subtle micro aggressions, such as a snide comment on a celeb coming out, can be hurtful, they added.
BAH, HUMBUG! PANDEMIC EXACERBATES HOLIDAY BLUESKATHI WOLFENOVEMBER 22, 2020WASHINGTON BLADEA few months of restarting your cycle might get you back around to hurtful.
SEX IN FRONT OF STRANGERSEUGENE ROBINSONNOVEMBER 15, 2020OZYShe said it’s hurtful when people she knows in real life are the ones doing the harassing, but she said social media harassment doesn’t bother her because they’re being made by people who don’t actually know her.
WOMEN POLITICIANS ACROSS THE COUNTY SAY THEY’VE FACED HARASSMENT, THREATSKAYLA JIMENEZNOVEMBER 9, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOIt’s hurtful, and it does make me feel like maybe it’s impossible.
HOW ‘BIG BROTHER’ (BARELY) REDEEMED ITSELF AFTER ONE OF THE MOST BORING SEASONS EVEREMILY YAHROCTOBER 29, 2020WASHINGTON POSTThe island is especially favoured; it contains no poisonous or hurtful insects or reptiles.
A WOMAN'S JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLDIDA PFEIFFERMany novels are hurtful because of the many false ideas interwoven in the stories.
THE VALUE OF A PRAYING MOTHERISABEL C. BYRUMMany hurtful acts, indeed, came to be viewed as crimes alike against God and man, and punishable in the interests of both.
MAN AND HIS ANCESTORCHARLES MORRISHis powerful logic would surprise,Amaze, and much delight: He proved that dimness of the eyesWas hurtful to the sight.
THE BOOK OF HUMOROUS VERSEVARIOUSNothing can be more hurtful to science than the dogmatic assumption that the hypothesis most in fashion is scientific.
HOMER AND HIS AGEANDREW LANGWORDS RELATED TO HURTFUL
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