bruising
Britishadjective
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causing bruises, as by a blow
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aggressively antagonistic; hurtful
four months of bruising negotiation
noun
Example Sentences
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And scrapping a couple of dozen forces was "very, very bruising last time round" for Labour, one insider says.
From BBC
The summit will offer Brussels the chance to turn the page after a bruising transatlantic crisis over Greenland -- now seemingly defused.
From Barron's
Occupying a strategic position similar to Greenland’s but fully sovereign, Icelanders once held bruising debates but have long since cast their lot with NATO, a commitment all but written in stone now.
Sheffield, 73 years old, just last summer emerged from a yearlong, bruising battle that stymied his retirement plans—and led him to announce he no longer wanted a board seat at oil giant Exxon Mobil.
Ley had already been struggling to assert her authority over the Coalition after being elected the Liberal party's first female leader after last year's bruising election defeat.
From BBC
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