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HURTSOME, adj. Hurtful, injurious. Gen.Sc. Also found in n.Eng. dial.Sc. 1887 North Star (26 May) 3:
The letter . . . in your issue of yesterday, is likely to prove hurtsome to the subscription list.Ayr. 1894 A. Laing Poems 102:
Wi' sic knowledge I felt it was hurtsome to speak.
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