hurtful vs ruinous

hurtful

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

  • Tending to hurt someone's feelings; insulting. 

ruinous

adj
  • Causing ruin; destructive, calamitous 

  • Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state. 

  • Extremely costly; so expensive as to cause financial ruin. 

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