Meaning of hurtsome | Babel Free

Definitions

Characterised or marked by hurt; causing injury or pain; injurious.

Examples

“[...] and namely, for the tedious length of the same, which should weary and be hurtsome peradventure to the King's Majesty, being yet of tender Age, fully to endure and bide out.”

“Such and thousands more are the joysome architectures of nature in contrast to the hurtsome ones of man, but in the last instance they bring us back to the reality that much can be done by combining the forces of nature and those of man.”

“In school, being wrong had a way of cutting my brain, the like way a stem of a fan palm could cut a hand. It was hurtsome.”

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