bruised

I’m going to just hit pause and cherish my bruised heart for a couple of years.

Setting aside any bruised pride, he said there are plenty of reasons to visit the region, beyond its former political prescience.

Already bruised by rows over defence spending cuts the year before, he pleaded with Thatcher to be allowed to step down.

Voters in the world’s western democracies were bruised and angry after a life-changing pandemic, several years of price surges and a migration crisis.

United insiders are bruised at the repeated references to £200m being burned through the decision to stick with Ten Hag post-FA Cup final triumph.