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painful
adjective as in physically or mentally agonizing
Strongest matches
agonizing, arduous, awful, difficult, dire, distasteful, distressing, excruciating, hard, harrowing, heart-wrenching, hurtful, severe, tedious, terrible, troublesome, uncomfortable, unpleasant
Example Sentences
Eight years later, the GOP — the party that has spent decades trying to privatize Social Security and Medicare — is trying a different approach: Destroying the program by increments, one painful piece at a time.
Petro, who said he had ordered the bombings to protect soldiers' lives, said he regretted the "painful loss" of children.
However painful, it’s important that you have witnessed your friend’s husband’s abusive actions, and that you are still in your friend’s life.
The red numbers carry on a painful trend.
During the biopsy, which found a polyp on her cervix which was then removed without warning, Mrs Lord repeatedly said it was "really painful" but was not offered pain relief, she said.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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