hurtful

Example Sentences

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Back at work, two managers, whom she says knew about what she'd been through, made comments she found hurtful.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

She said people have made hurtful comments to her.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

Of course, you cannot unhear hurtful comments, but you can prevent them from impacting your performance.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 28, 2026

You need to say that you will do whatever it takes to heal the specific ways that you have been hurtful.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

C. P. Ellis: hurting and hurtful, possessed of all the tedious, creaking, accumulated hatreds of the South, and yet guileless and—Riddick believed—essentially honorable.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson