feel bad

idiom

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

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So don’t feel bad about kicking your spouse out of the house for a few hours or asking your family who are visiting for the holidays to entertain themselves for the evening. Daniel Wine, CNN, 3 Dec. 2024 Sending the text will feel bad, but ghosting allows uncertainty to linger. Aditi Shrikant, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2024 Pew Research found that women are more likely than men to feel bad because of the burden on their co-workers, Black workers are more worried about losing their jobs and some new employees are concerned that taking PTO will impact their future with the company. Rick Hammell, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024 And one of the unlucky millions who was made to feel bad about it. Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024 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 21 Dec. 2024.

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