The word "pained" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective used to describe a feeling of physical or mental pain or distress. Example sentence: She felt a pained expression cross her face as she heard the news.
Brazil's crestfallen players have admitted they will be scarred for life by the record defeat to Germany, with the humiliation having left the squad perplexed and pained as they somehow attempt to rouse themselves for Saturday's third-place play-off in Brasília.
Updated at 11.17am ET Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 11.04am ET16 04 Obama: 'people are completely fed up' The president is stern, taking his slightly pained, mildly dyspeptic tone: There's been a lot of discussion of the politics.
As a story of self-acceptance in stunted suburbia, Bad Neighbours has an improbable feminine companion piece in Stacie Passon's wryly pained and subtly erotic Concussion (Channel 4 DVD, 15).
The Salvadoran players were pained by the humiliation.
These days, I can only sit in it for short periods before I have to get up and walk around, each step accompanied by a pained exhalation.
Ms Weingarten hates being cast as the bad guy, as she was on a panel with Ms Rhee in September, a pained smile fixed on her face.
All exporters are grumbling, but miners, despite efforts to hedge against currency swings, seem especially pained.
BL is pained at the thought that the ensuing loss of production will foul up its productivity scheme and possibly lead to more labour troubles of its own later.
British lager louts pained him, and over-enthusiastic building meant that the "leisure space" he had ordered between hotels was sometimes pocket-handkerchiefed in size.
But one school was failing, and it pained Mr Miliband to walk into that school and see pupils being consistently let down.
Instead, Mr Miliband's denouncements of welfare cheats looked pained, as though he was reluctant to issue them at all (and, judging by what I hear behind the scenes, he is).
