Definitions
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- n. The property of being hurtful.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or quality of being hurtful or detrimental; injuriousness.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Not by reasoning, not by the five senses alone, but by other and remoter and uncharted senses, came the feeling to White Fang that the man was ominous with evil, pregnant with hurtfulness, and therefore a thing bad, and wisely to be hated.
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When a "dependent" is not given what they want, and they are not equipped with proper communication skills and coping mechanisms, they can tend towards disrespectful rage and hurtfulness to deal with their uncomfortable frustration.
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It's easy to cast a critical eye on the methods, styles, imperfections, unintentional hurtfulness, and ways our mother's caring communication seemed to go awry.
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Nowhere was this hurtfulness more evident than in Gingrich's private life.
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Though I would speak of its hurtfulness, it was my sensitivity that was ultimately deemed the problem.
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As for the rest – you'll have to unpack why the inherent hurtfulness of murder is an issue for hate speech; and, indeed, what you mean by "extra-legal sanctions".
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You know, from the song I am struck by the deliberate coldness of this, the hurtfulness, and I am slightly ashamed of my mother.
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He saw the hurtfulness of being a single mom; he watched his mother struggle.
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She tells the speaker to "knock it off," in a way that points up the hurtfulness of the comment without talking down to or lecturing young people.
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Does the fact that I was blind to what my words meant changed the hurtfulness of those words and actions?
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