hurtful vs malignant

hurtful

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

  • Tending to hurt someone's feelings; insulting. 

malignant

adj
  • Harmful, malevolent, injurious. 

  • Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue. 

noun
  • A deviant; a person who is hostile or destructive to society. 

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