hurtful vs spiteful

hurtful

adj
  • Tending to hurt someone's feelings; insulting. 

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

spiteful

adj
  • Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to annoy or harm. 

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