hurtful

Preposition: than

• paralysis: Correct action can be no more hurtful than continued paralysis or a quack remedy.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• say: In groups, the children can compose a story about a situation in which someone says something hurtful on purpose.
• do: When someone has done something hurtful to us, how are we to react?

Modifies a noun

• behavior: Try to establish some communication without involving your child in rows or hurtful behavior.
• comment: Treat hurtful comments lightly â try to laugh them off.
• word: The arguments, the hurtful words, all past foes who caused such hurt.
• thing: Shame on you for all the hurtful things you have written.
• way: I could use them in a helpful way or I could use them in a hurtful way.
• remark: You start talking, and just as you're starting to feel really proud, someone makes a hurtful remark.

Modifying Another Word

• very: Ignoring others or calling names can be very hurtful.
• so: Words can be so cutting, words can be so hurtful.
• deliberately: Such behavior will usually be deliberately hurtful, repeated over a period of time and the victim will have difficulty defending themselves.
• deeply: The scrapping of the RUC's name and badge is deeply hurtful.
• really: And God said: ' That's really hurtful, actually.
• especially: Family insults may be especially hurtful in the context of children's homes as family relationships were often strained, uncertain and sometimes severed.

Used with adjective complement

• find: Buddhists say: hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.
• become: Free speech stops when it becomes hurtful to someone else.