feel bad

idiom

: feel regret over something
I feel bad about what happened.

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Don’t feel bad about being selective since your friends should feel honored to be part of your life. Liz Simmons, StyleCaster, 24 June 2025 No one does — or should — feel bad for those of us who were there that night in Oakland to cover Game 7. David Aldridge, New York Times, 22 June 2025 The clerk functions, in effect, as a film critic, except that their judgments are delivered in person and are designed to make customers feel bad about their taste. Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 June 2025 Like many folks raised Catholic know, there’s sometimes a self-destructive tendency to pursue things as an adult you were told endlessly to feel bad about as a kid, which can parlay itself into habits of excess. Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for feel bad

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“Feel bad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/feel%20bad. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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