hurtful vs vicious

hurtful

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

  • Tending to hurt someone's feelings; insulting. 

vicious

adj
  • Violent, destructive and cruel. 

  • Savage and aggressive. 

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