How to Use hurtful in a Sentence

hurtful

adjective

• She can't forgive him for the hurtful things he said.
• Their comments were really hurtful to me.
• Evans said the church has been a hurtful and awful place for some.
  — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 June 2019
• The sh*t that happened tonight to me at the awards today was hurtful.
  — Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 2 July 2024
• Well, that ended up being hurtful for both the fans and the team.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 4 Mar. 2021
• To have someone pull the rug out was just too hurtful and too much to move on from.
  — Vulture, 31 Jan. 2024
• The use of the term ‘mentally ill’ was wrong & hurtful.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2019
• My words were hurtful and hateful and have no place in this world.
  — Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 5 Mar. 2020
• The words were hurtful and made my daughter cry, which woke up the mama bear in me.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2022
• At the end of the day, losing a top-10 player like Myles is hurtful to a football team.
  — cleveland, 22 Dec. 2019
• Some of the things Kanye is accusing her of are hurtful.
  — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 9 Feb. 2022
• Friends warn her not to take the bait, but Sam can’t seem to pull herself away from the hurtful comments.
  — Pilot Viruet, The Verge, 4 May 2018
• But a lot of it isn’t, and these videos can turn into hurtful jabs at creators.
  — Julia Alexander, The Verge, 5 Aug. 2019
• Nichols said the recording of the video by an ESPN colleague was hurtful.
  — New York Times, 4 July 2021
• Harsh criticism can be hurtful, even to a fierce heart like yours.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2020
• At the time of the move-out, the student wrote me a very hurtful letter, telling me about how adults should act and how my children were spoiled.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 5 July 2023
• These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.
  — J.d. Crowe | [e-mail], al, 4 Mar. 2021
• Sometimes things are said that are hurtful — people tend to say stupid things.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2019
• The endowed lecturer found this hurtful, but less and less so as time went on.
  — Jarrett Earnest, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022
• That makes the romance between Alexis and her ex all that more hurtful.
  — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 11 Jan. 2024
• Bono: Some people say that the lifeblood of U2 is concerts, not our albums — which is very hurtful.
  — Rob Tannenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• A lot of the things though are f---ing crazy and hilarious and also very hurtful.
  — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2023
• She’s a textbook narcissist who has said many very hurtful things and has a new man and new life.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2020
• Some of the language from these leaders has been disturbing to them, and hurtful.
  — Renata Brito, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2022
• To call this slogan ‘hurtful’ is to be against the end of occupation.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Nov. 2023
• Having that taken away from me at the last minute was pretty hurtful.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 8 Jan. 2022
• Then there were the people who were trying to take away their pain, who had the kindest hearts, but who said things that were so hurtful.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 17 Nov. 2022
• However, his five-foot-eleven-inch stature could prove hurtful to his draft stock.
  — Stephen Wagner, Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2021
• And having [Armstrong] singing my son’s songs is hurtful.
  — Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2024
• The Republican governor has pushed back on the recent national focus on the town, saying the spread of false rumors has been hurtful for the community.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024