PAINFUL

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painful adjectiv

1. dureros, care doare.

2. penibil, greu;

a painful problem o problemă grea.

Excuse me if I allude to that which is painful to you, but I have no alternative.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As the evening wore on his excitement became quite painful.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This is a painful task! Oh, so painful that it heart-break me to think of; but it must be.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I could not help glancing at the scar with a painful interest when we went in to tea.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“You are an excellent servant, but your presence has become painful to me.”

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is painful to have to say these things, but you leave me no choice.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To make milder or less painful.

(Mitigate, NCI Dictionary)

These painful ideas crossed her mind, though she said nothing.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)