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sore point
noun as in bone of contention
noun as in red flag
Weak matches
noun as in soft spot
noun as in weakness
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in weak point
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- Achilles heel
- appetite
- blemish
- chink in armor
- debility
- decrepitude
- delicacy
- enervation
- failing
- faintness
- fault
- feebleness
- foible
- fondness
- frailty
- gap
- impairment
- impotence
- inclination
- inconstancy
- indecision
- infirmity
- instability
- invalidity
- irresolution
- lack
- languor
- lapse
- liking
- passion
- penchant
- powerlessness
- predilection
- proclivity
- prostration
- senility
- taste
- vice
- vitiation
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Example Sentences
But for the real Mark Schultz, whom Tatum plays in the film Foxcatcher, it has become a sore point.
Not surprisingly, McAuliffe hammers away on this sore point, leaving Cuccinelli trailing and the story festering.
Another sore point: Most adult performers found out about the latest positive test through rumor or the media, not AIM.
Never mind all that now; I don't care to recall it, and it is a very sore point with Val.
His face clouded over, her impulsive words had been after all ill chosen, she had touched a sore point!
It was an awfully sore point with him that he had been rejected for the army.
It was a sore point with Bess, who was always irritated when Linda was able to show her superiority in money matters.
As the question of hanging seemed a sore point with Mr. Watkins, he tried to divert the conversation a little.
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On this page you'll find 148 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sore point, such as: altercation, apple of discord, argument, beef, conflict, and controversy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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