Example Sentences

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The "Ghostbusters" star, 69, said hurtful comedy should be called out for its "hurtfulness."

From Fox News • Nov. 3, 2021

But it is disingenuous to treat the censure of a work like Di Rosa’s as bewildering, or to claim that its hurtfulness isn’t easily comprehensible.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 12, 2019

It's when jealousy and hurtfulness is added in that it becomes mildly sadistic.

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2015

That they don't receive First Amendment protection has nothing to do with their hurtfulness to others.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2011

And then we were out of Jesus’s heart and in the parking lot, the spring air just on the cold side of perfect, the late-afternoon light heavenly in its hurtfulness.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green