hurtful

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1. hurtful - Adjective

2. hurtful - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct.

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water from clay pipes is much more wholesome than that which is conducted through lead pipes, because lead is found to be harmful for the reason that white lead is derived from it, and this is said to be hurtful to the human system. Vitruvius

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. Simone Weil

I think people tend to forget that as celebrities we are still human. We have the same emotions - we cry, we have fun, we laugh, we get sad, and we get hurt. When something is written about you, which millions of people are reading, and it is not true, imagine how hurtful it can be. Sania Mirza

Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful and what is silenced in the culture we're in. Junot Diaz

An arrow can be pulled out of a wound, but a hurtful word stays forever in your heart. Persian Proverb

Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it. English Proverb

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