smarting

Still fearful and smarting from the pain, I arrived on time and was led to chair in his office.

“I think we were smarting a bit at the criticism,” he told me.

I think we were smarting a bit at the criticism ... We knew we had to plot a new course for the show.

Jordan is still smarting from this early lesson in politics.

Romney is smarting from attacks over his time as the head of Bain Capital, the Boston private-equity firm he founded.

But her tenderness and marked affection went some way to soothe the smarting of the girl's sore feelings.

General Johnston was smarting under the criticisms of the campaign which resulted in the loss of Donelson.

They rose to fight, and dispersed for safety, leaving their smarting foe unable to strike for lack of a billet.

You speak in cold blood, Master Heriot, and I was smarting under a thousand wrongs inflicted on me under the mask of friendship.

Stover, smarting at his humiliation below, seized the opportunity for revenge.