ouch

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As interviewer Iain Dale responded "ouch", Polanski said: "I really like Adrian, so that does hurt."

From BBC • Aug. 1, 2025

And it was an own goal given the error was in a Twitter video put out by Google itself, ouch.

From Reuters • Feb. 9, 2023

“If one of them has been thinking something, the others intuitively know it. I tease them: ‘If I stick one of you with a pin, all three of you would say ouch.’

From Washington Times • Jun. 19, 2022

I would qualify for roughly $2,000 in rebates, but ouch.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2022

On the way I stub my toe on a sawhorse, but manage to swallow the ouch.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick