Synonyms:
offended, pained
Meaning: hurt or upset; "she looked offended"; "face had a pained and puzzled expression"
Usage examples
His eyes pained horribly.
The question pained Constance worse than all.
He climbed upon the summit of the mountain, and pained himself grievously to bring his journey to an end.
It is doubtful which would have been the more shocked and pained to find himself in the clothing of the other.
It was, of course, a comfort to have some one to share his sorrows; but it pained his tender heart to make another help bear his burdens.
She seemed to like those lingering sentences--and hung upon them--and even smiled but in her eyes there was a vague and melancholy pleading--a wandering and unfathomable look that pained him.
He turned upon her suddenly, and meeting her sweet, world-ignorant eyes, felt the faint, pained shock once more, and strangely enough his first thought was a disconnected one of Priscilla Gower.
I promised to be at the castle last night, but unfortunately I felt indisposed, and only that I wished to have a thorough understanding relative to your recent conduct, and which has pained me acutely, I should not have ventured out of doors this evening either.
When they were little, their respective fathers were expected also to take part in the obstacle race, and when with the advance of years the fathers finally refused to be contestants, there was a general feeling of pained regret among the children at such a decline in the sporting spirit.
Jos was unaffectedly glad to see and shake the hand of his father, between whom and himself there had been a coolness--glad to see his little sister, whom he remembered so pretty and smiling, and pained at the alteration which time, grief, and misfortune had made in the shattered old man.