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sore point

noun

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  1. An action, belief, or state of affairs which is an enduring basis for disagreement or…

    An action, belief, or state of affairs which is an enduring basis for disagreement or dissatisfaction.

    • The affair of the chaplaincy remained a sore point in his memory as a case in which this petty medium of Middlemarch had been too strong for him.
    • It is a sore point with me, this being told what I am to do or not do by you self-constituted lords of creation.
    • [T]he talks have touched on Iran's suspected nuclear-weapons program, its sponsorship of terrorism and other sore points.

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