ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

irritate, provoke, sting, nettle, try the patience, pique, fret, rile, tweak the nose, chafe,
gall; sting to the quick, wound to the quick, cut to the quick; aggrieve, affront, enchafe † ,
enrage, ruffle, sour the temper; give offense &c (resentment) 900.
maltreat, bite, snap at, assail; smite &c (punish) 972.
sicken, disgust, revolt, nauseate, disenchant, repel, offend, shock, stink in the nostrils;
go against the stomach, turn the stomach; make one sick, set the teeth on edge, go against
the grain, grate on the ear; stick in one's throat, stick in one's gizzard; rankle, gnaw,
corrode, horrify, appal † , appall, freeze the blood; make the flesh creep, make the hair
stand on end; make the blood curdle, make the blood run cold; make one shudder.
haunt the memory; weigh on the heart, prey on the heart, weigh on the mind, prey on
the mind, weigh on the spirits, prey on the spirits; bring one's gray hairs with sorrow to
the grave; add a nail to one's coffin.
Adj. causing pain, hurting &c v.; hurtful &c (bad) 649; painful; dolorific † , dolorous;
unpleasant; unpleasing, displeasing; disagreeable, unpalatable, bitter, distasteful;
uninviting; unwelcome; undesirable, undesired; obnoxious; unacceptable, unpopular,
thankless.
unsatisfactory, untoward, unlucky, uncomfortable.
distressing; afflicting, afflictive; joyless, cheerless, comfortless; dismal, disheartening;
depressing, depressive; dreary, melancholy, grievous, piteous; woeful, rueful, mournful,
deplorable, pitiable, lamentable; sad, affecting, touching, pathetic.
irritating, provoking, stinging, annoying, aggravating, mortifying, galling;
unaccommodating, invidious, vexatious; troublesome, tiresome, irksome, wearisome;
plaguing, plaguy † ; awkward.
importunate; teasing, pestering, bothering, harassing, worrying, tormenting, carking.
intolerable, insufferable, insupportable; unbearable, unendurable; past bearing; not to
be borne, not to be endured; more than flesh and blood can bear; enough to drive one
mad, enough to provoke a saint, enough to make a parson swear, enough to gag a maggot.
shocking, terrific, grim, appalling, crushing; dreadful, fearful, frightful; thrilling,
tremendous, dire; heart-breaking, heart-rending, heart-wounding, heart-corroding, heartsickening;
harrowing, rending.
odious, hateful, execrable, repulsive, repellent, abhorrent; horrid, horrible, horrific,
horrifying; offensive.
nauseous, nauseating; disgusting, sickening, revolting; nasty; loathsome, loathful † ;
fulsome; vile &c (bad) 649; hideous &c 846.
sharp, acute, sore, severe, grave, hard, harsh, cruel, biting, caustic; cutting, corroding,
consuming, racking, excruciating, searching, grinding, grating, agonizing; envenomed;
catheretic † , pyrotic [Med.].
ruinous, disastrous, calamitous, tragical; desolating, withering; burdensome, onerous,
oppressive; cumbrous, cumbersome.
Adv. painfully &c adj.; with pain &c 828; deuced.
Int. hinc illae lachrymae! [Lat.],
Phr. surgit amari aliquid [Lat.]; the place being too hot to hold one; the iron entering into
the soul; he jests at scars that never felt a wound [Romeo and Juliet]; I must be cruel only
to be kind [Hamlet]; what deep wounds ever closed without a scar? [Byron].