pained
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- v cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- v cause emotional anguish or make miserable
- s hurt or upset
face had a pained and puzzled expression
- As aristocrats and servants flirt and hurt one another, Renoir stands slightly apart, smiling and pained, understanding the sadness of the maxim "Everyone has his own reasons.
- Premier Nicolai Pashitch and his colleagues had, some time before, been pained to discover that Stefan Raditch's Croatian Party, which they had tried to outlaw, was 67 strong .
- Creator Mike Judge makes Hank funny in his pained Boy-Scout rectitude without making him a figure of fun for it, and with its canvas of mega-stores and Laotian yuppies, the show .