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pained

adjective as in upset

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It pained him, he wrote in a newspaper essay, that his oldest daughter had selected the University of Michigan for college because she thought no Florida school was good enough.

Agatha pleads with her not to take him, and Death seems genuinely pained about it, so she offers Agatha one option –– time.

From Salon

Fiennes, who is so restrained in his performance it is almost pained, manages to let the shadow of hope cross his carefully composed face.

Paying tribute on X, formerly known as Twitter, Modi recounted "countless interactions" with Tata and said he was "extremely pained" by his death.

From BBC

Governor Umaru Bago said he was “pained by the unfortunate incident” in a condolence message to the families of the victims.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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