hard feelings
idiom
: feelings of dislike or anger toward someone that you think has mistreated you
She felt/had no hard feelings towards him.
The court's decision has caused a lot of hard feelings.
—The phrase no hard feelings is used in speech to say that you are not upset or to ask if someone else is upset."I'm sorry I broke our date last night." "That's OK; no hard feelings."
"So, we're still friends, right? No hard feelings?"
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Open discussion was always encouraged, but if someone didn’t agree with a final decision, there would be no hard feelings.
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Chris Vannini, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
While the divorce was finalized earlier this year, Lopez appears to have no hard feelings for her ex, even crediting Affleck for being the reason the movie was made.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025
There’s no hard feelings for Thug with Gunna or anyone else who was arrested as part of the YSL RICO trial.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2025
The executives and the engineers and the shareholders value his ability to simultaneously provide and deny intimacy, and to blame any hard feelings on the user.
—Gary Greenberg, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
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Chris Vannini, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
While the divorce was finalized earlier this year, Lopez appears to have no hard feelings for her ex, even crediting Affleck for being the reason the movie was made.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025
There’s no hard feelings for Thug with Gunna or anyone else who was arrested as part of the YSL RICO trial.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2025
The executives and the engineers and the shareholders value his ability to simultaneously provide and deny intimacy, and to blame any hard feelings on the user.
—Gary Greenberg, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for hard feelings
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“Hard feelings.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard%20feelings. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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