~ (to sb) (of comments) unkind and making you feel upset and offended:
I cannot forget the hurtful things he said. * The bad reviews of her new book were very hurtful to her.
hurtfully adverb:
He said, rather hurtfully, that he had better things to do than come and see me.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for hurtful is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is hurtful a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, hurtful is tagged as adjective.
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