heartsore

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She has since tried to reset her campaign by committing to protect the rights of everyone to live and love without fear or harassment, describing herself as "heartsore" at the hurt some of her comments have caused.

From BBC

Unhappy Husband: It is hard to feel sorry for you — the heartsore man who deliberately chose to marry a very nice woman you’ve never loved, because you were so afraid of being hurt.

From Washington Post

If you’re heartsore at the quadruple crisis of the mismanaged pandemic, the resultant financial catastrophe grinding down so many people, the climate chaos dramatically evident in unprecedented fires in the west, hurricanes in the southeast, and melting ice in Greenland and the poles, and the corruption, human rights abuses, and creeping authoritarianism of the current regime, you’re not alone.

From The Guardian

“When you nurture something and you build something, it makes you heartsore to see it broken,” said Ms. Manik, who worked at the tax agency for 23 years.

From New York Times

A gay teenage romcom from mass-market TV titan Greg Berlanti, it’s affecting and heartsore in all the right places, but comforting above all: you leave it with the same light wine-spritzer buzz you get from Bridget Jones’s Diary or 13 Going on 30, though its adolescent target audience shouldn’t even be that inebriated.

From The Guardian