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What does hurtful mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word hurtful? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury.
  2. Tending to hurt someone's feelings; insulting.
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He might similarly be discommoded by firefish, I continued, which are easier to spot but no less hurtful.
The kind of comments which you have chosen to unpublish are not only hurtful and disrespectful, but they are poor reflections on our city.
I am firmly of the opinion that we should live and let live as long as what we are doing is not detrimental and hurtful to others.
And discovery in the case could still prove very embarrassing for him, as well as hurtful to his wife and children.
For Mike, bodybuilding was a way of dealing with hurtful childhood taunts and ostracism.
To mount any more resistance isn't only hurtful, it's absurd. Enough already.

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