painful

causing physical or psychological pain

• “worked with painful slowness”

causing misery or pain or distress

• “it was a sore trial to him”
• “the painful process of growing up”

exceptionally bad or displeasing

• “atrocious taste”
• “abominable workmanship”
• “an awful voice”
• “dreadful manners”
• “a painful performance”
• “terrible handwriting”
• “an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room”

causing physical discomfort

• “bites of black flies are more than irritating; they can be very painful”