hurtful vs malefic

hurtful

adj

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

  • Tending to hurt someone's feelings; insulting. 

malefic

adj

  • Having an evil or harmful influence; baleful. 

noun

  • a malefic planet 

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