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“As the day of the operation drew closer, it became more and more painful and frightening to contemplate,” wrote Reeve.

As difficult as the courtroom loss likely was for the elderly Katherine Jackson, what is to come may be even more painful.

And even more painful yet is that haredi orthodoxy has great potential for contributing to the larger community.

More painful is that a wide swath of the haredi population is ready and desirous for a more complete life.

So the leverage game here centers on which party finds the automatic cuts more painful.

I did not anticipate a tour of pleasure through Ireland, but the reality is more painful than I anticipated.

The effort would have been still more painful with regard to the subject of your two last letters.

Its methods are the same, but its results, with a growing civilization are more painful and destructive to its victims.

What more painful news could he have to bring than they already knew?

I, myself, have several times experienced this foreboding, and there can scarcely be a more painful sensation.

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On this page you'll find 102 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to painful, such as: agonizing, arduous, awful, difficult, dire, and distasteful.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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