Sentence examples for but hurtful from inspiring English sources

"That is understandable but hurtful".

"It needs to stop because it's nothing but hurtful for everyone involved".

As for the personal stuff, it's been silly but hurtful – comedian Frankie Boyle idiotically tweeting this week that Adlington had an unfair advantage "by possessing a dolphin's face".

But it's not just relationships with one's co-workers, friends and family members that can benefit from the withholding of information that is true but hurtful; maintaining national security sometimes requires preventing sensitive information from becoming public.

"I logged in and I was like – bad hombres, nasty women, what is everyone talking about?" For several of our participants, reading the alternative Facebook feed was not just surprising, but hurtful.

Yet over the past three months Ms. Makurya has spent much of her time with an angry new generation of Ethiopian-Israeli activists on the sidewalk near the prime minister's residence in central Jerusalem, protesting against unofficial but hurtful racism and discrimination.

By and large my family and friends were excited for me, but the few blips were not only curious, but somewhat hurtful.

The two penalties by Nadolo were irritating but not hurtful.

Charges of nepotism, poor casting choices and frequent absence from the house scarcely held water but were hurtful nonetheless.

This week, Mizzou police issued a statement encouraging students to report not just physical threats, but also "hurtful speech" — a dangerously wide category.

"I was personally offended at the approach taken that was not only misleading but unnecessarily hurtful," said Mrs. Clinton, Democrat of New York.