1
: feeling pain : hurt
2
: expressing or involving pain
a pained expression
with pained surprise
Examples of pained in a Sentence
She wore a pained expression on her face.
He truly looked pained when he heard the news.
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Chuck, a gifted dancer doing his math homework, looks pained.
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Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Fable is luxuriating in contrasts between the pained, private, and pop-adjacent Bon Iver.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2025
The increasingly obvious awfulness of Dave’s book gives Smollett some great reaction work amid all Michelle’s pained determination.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 28 June 2025
Bates is pained to see teenagers (representing 12% of the city population), brazenly and without recompense, running around, destroying the lives of others, and also for those whose lives were cut short in middle age by said juveniles.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 6 June 2025
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Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Fable is luxuriating in contrasts between the pained, private, and pop-adjacent Bon Iver.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2025
The increasingly obvious awfulness of Dave’s book gives Smollett some great reaction work amid all Michelle’s pained determination.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 28 June 2025
Bates is pained to see teenagers (representing 12% of the city population), brazenly and without recompense, running around, destroying the lives of others, and also for those whose lives were cut short in middle age by said juveniles.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 6 June 2025
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“Pained.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pained. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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