hurt feelings

plural noun

: unhappiness or sadness caused by someone's words or actions

His behavior at the party caused a lot of hurt feelings.

Examples of hurt feelings in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Being discreet about your travels would also spare you from the burden of your friends’ hurt feelings. —Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 2 Mar. 2024

This can lead to crew-ground misunderstandings and hurt feelings. —Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024

This is more like a therapy session due to hurt feelings and hurt pride, than history. —Mike Coté, National Review, 3 Dec. 2023

Don’t let your ego or hurt feelings ruin essential relationships. —Dominique Fluker, Essence, 12 Feb. 2024

One of the best ways to avoid drama and hurt feelings is to be transparent from the jump. —Dominique Fluker, Essence, 17 Aug. 2023

Stung by an advertiser boycott and accusations of antisemitism, Elon Musk didn’t hide his hurt feelings in an onstage interview at the New York Times’ DealBook Summit conference. —Jaimie Ding, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023

Though there were some hurt feelings at the time, the three women have stayed in touch. —Lisa Tozzi, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2023

By being applied universally, that rule was meant to avoid hurt feelings — the kind that inevitably follow when one husband is accused of bad manners or bad morals. —Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023