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(often plural; often used with a negative) resentment; ill willno hard feelings?

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Words nearby hard feeling

harden one's heart, harden up, hard-faced, hard-favored, hard-featured, hard feeling, hard feelings, hard fern, hard-fisted, hard goods, hard ground

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How to use hard feeling in a sentence

Time was when Mrs. Nuttall's tears impressed him with the conviction that he was a man of hard feeling, but he had got over that.
Grif|B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon
The Englishmen looked down on the provincial officers and men, and this caused much hard feeling.
Ben Comee|M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan
But I trust that nothing which has happened in this court room will cause any hard feeling of a lasting character.
Stepsons of Light|Eugene Manlove Rhodes
It very quickly stirred up hard feeling, which resulted in attempts to down him.
The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him|Paul Leicester Ford

It took on a distinctly hard feeling towards Avery, and this feeling was not unmixed with resentment.
Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter?|Helen H. Gardener

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