biting vs hurtful

biting

adj
  • Cutting or incisive. 

  • Tending to bite. 

  • Causing a stinging sensation. 

noun
  • A bite-sized snack. 

  • An instance of something being bitten. 

hurtful

adj
  • Tending to impair or damage; injurious; occasioning loss or injury. 

  • Tending to hurt someone's feelings; insulting. 

How often have the words biting and hurtful occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )