painful
Example Sentences
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Watching the foursome ahead of me putt out, one, then another, each one putting and marking, is so painful.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
“It was painful to throw it away,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026
“It’s a very painful and hard thing to do,” Kanekar said of deploying FDEs.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026
The Oklahoma City Thunder condemned the Los Angeles Lakers to one of the heaviest defeats in their history - one made more painful by an injury to star Luka Doncic.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
How there are moments when it’s painful or boring, yeah.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.