hurtful vs stinging

hurtful

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

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

stinging

adj
  • Precise and hurtful. 

  • Having the capacity to sting. 

noun
  • The act by which someone receives a sting. 

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