Words similar to painful

Example sentences for: painful

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...Painful, try helping prove you're delighted by supersentences that prevail.
Enduring a tense dinner out with Ananda Gupta, Kate Wing, and Beth Sherman--a meal marked by painful silences and women running sobbing from the table every few minutes, and thankfully interrupted by Kate Galbraith calling the Health Department and having the joint shut down.
They add that finding things promptly on the Web with a search engine is hard enough, that using it as a historical research tool would be incredibly painful.
Intel's strained effort to please makes the whole cute-machine thing slightly painful, but Culturebox predicts that cute is more than a passing fad in industrial design.
That is gentle and clear, yet so packed with suggestive ideas that it is almost painful to read.