Words similar to bruising

Example sentences for: bruising

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The covers of Time and Newsweek feature tell-alls by Clinton insiders about their bruising stints in the White House.
After the bruising Kennedy-Carter convention fight in 1980, the National Organization for Women refused to endorse Jimmy Carter--over Ronald Reagan!
Details of the alleged encounter echo the ones revealed on the op-ed page of Friday's Wall Street Journal : then-gubernatorial candidate Clinton invited an innocent Broaddrick to have coffee in his hotel room, and then forced himself on her, biting and bruising her lips.