pained

A Father Christmas figure is pictured looking pained in the water at the foot of a rock.

Then again—and the idea pained her sharply even as she thought it, like swallowing something cold too quickly—perhaps she already was.

She sat on the edge of one cot; the thin, lumpy mattress and pained squeak of the old springs made her sigh with contentment.

Bero wrote, “In all cases, she manages to make her subjects look dull, ashy, pained and sad, a far cry from the lively and graceful people that they usually are.”

Oh, and watch House Speaker Mike Johnson shake his head in sorrow, a pained expression on his face, as the president lists this shocking litany of fraud.