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Meanings of painful in English
Exceptionally bad or displeasing.
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Usage of painful in English
1
For many in northern Europe, however, the Swiss decision will be painful.
2
The problem began a year ago when penetration started to be painful.
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Parents often found discussing genetic risk information very difficult and emotionally painful.
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Therefore, alpha-HBDH is of doubtful value in the diagnosis of painful crisis.
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ANSWER: This sounds like a difficult and painful situation to be in.
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But it left one sector of society with a particularly painful dilemma.
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The painful reality of creation is that it cannot continue without destruction.
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Thank you so much in advance for dealing with this painful situation.
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Late-onset painful sensory neuropathies are usually acquired conditions associated with common diseases.
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Isabelle was grateful to have heard the truth, however painful it was.
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Flouncing toward them was another painful reality of Chane's new existence: Sapphire.
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He said: I had to take a very tough decision, obviously painful.
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Otherwise, there'll be more painful adjustments to a new, low-interest rate future.
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Maybe events in South Australia will provide the painful but necessary spur.
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A period of painful adjustment is simply going to have to happen.
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No matter how many years went by, that subject was always painful.
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United Kingdom
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Australia
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