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painful

[peyn-fuhl] / ˈpeɪn fəl /


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NOT SO PAINFUL: Johnson & Johnson rose 3% after a ruling against the company in an Oklahoma opiod case wound up being less than investors were expecting.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 27, 2019

No scenes, no noise; nothing painful—by-the-by, the little creature that writes in the papers, and calls calamities PAINFUL, is of Lusignan's breed.

From A Simpleton by Reade, Charles




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