Words similar to pained

Example sentences for: pained

How can you use “pained” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Two funny, affecting sequences exploit every father's pained awareness of his daughter's unmet needs.
His pained, awkward expression suggested someone sucking a lemon while receiving a proctologic exam.
(How it must have pained Adams's sense of journalistic integrity to have to mention the name of that perfume in her column.)
Highlights: Clinton was afraid his wife wouldn't forgive him (what a shocker) and Hillary Clinton was deeply pained by her husband's affair (another surprise).
(Or was Ford, he of the simmering stare and pained, narrow grin, ever really that great?