hard feelings

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She replied: "Exactly, and that's a fantastic way to express yourself and also manage really difficult and hard feelings that are sometimes harder to express with words."

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2026

As if to prove there were no hard feelings, Mr. Scorsese cast Mr. Reiner as the dad of Jordan Belfort in “The Wolf of Wall Street.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

She says she has "absolutely no hard feelings" towards the donor but says it was unacceptable she was given sperm that "wasn't clean, that wasn't safe, that carried a risk".

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025

The hard feelings have softened some with the passing of both time and Lasorda, who died in 2021.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025

I thought Grandpa had prayed away all the town’s hard feelings, and maybe he really had.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns