harsh feeling

Example Sentences

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But the experience of how cold and insensitive the building operators, lawyers, and super intendant were, left a harsh feeling in all of us at such a difficult time.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2016

As delivered, the fork was a bit harsh feeling under braking, but a couple clicks out on the compression adjusters cured that sensation in a jiffy.

From Time Magazine Archive

I’m glad you have no harsh feeling toward her.

From The House of a Thousand Candles by Nicholson, Meredith

No harsh feeling ever clouded her serene brow; how did I treat her? wounding her gentle heart with savage coldness; I had no compassion on her in past years, does she forgive me now?

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

The farthest I can go in that direction is to call them by names of limited reverence—names merely descriptive, never unkind, never offensive, never tainted by harsh feeling.

From What Is Man? and Other Essays by Twain, Mark