Doesn't feel right

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I'm not sure whether I'm using the didn't feel right expression correctly below. I can't find it on any dictionary. Is the sentence below correct?

I could escape and I knew she would be okay. Still though, it didn't feel right to me to leave her behind now that she was having a panic attack.
 
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I'm not sure whether I'm using [strike]the[/strike] doesn't feel right [strike]expression[/strike] correctly below. I can't find it [STRIKE]on[/STRIKE] in any dictionary. Is the sentence below correct?

I could escape and I knew she would be okay. Still, [strike]though,[/strike] it didn't feel right [STRIKE]to me[/STRIKE] to leave her behind now that she was having a panic attack.

See above.

You won't find a three-word expression like that in a dictionary. Use Ngram instead.

Also, you asked us if you were using "doesn't feel right" correctly and then used "didn't feel right". Make sure you ask us about the exact words you're trying to use.
 
See above.

You won't find a three-word expression like that in a dictionary. Use Ngram instead.

Also, you asked us if you were using "doesn't feel right" correctly and then used "didn't feel right". Make sure you ask us about the exact words you're trying to use.


So is still though wrong? I have seen it used many times.

Why is it wrong to specify that this doesn't seem right to me?
 
So is still though wrong? I have seen it used many times.

Only one word was crossed out. The word "though" doesn't fit there.

Why is it wrong to specify that this doesn't seem right to me?

It's not so much that it's wrong. It's implied, so it isn't necessary.

If I say something feels wrong I mean it feels wrong to me.
 
So is still though wrong? I have seen it used many times.

Why is it wrong to specify that this doesn't seem right to me?

"Still" and "though" mean the same thing there. It's tautologous. Please provide links to some of the "many times" you've seen "Still though" used that way.

"to me" is unnecessary. It's clear that it was you who felt that it didn't feel right.
 
It's still tautologous though.

In those examples "though" is used much the same way "uh" might be used. In other words, the speaker/writer hesitates a bit before continuing with the thought.
 
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I find most of the examples in your first link unnatural and tautologous. Also, no source is given for any of those examples. When you said you'd seen it used many times, I thought you meant you had come across it in actual pieces of natural writing, not that you'd gone and searched on purpose. There's only one there that seems natural to me: "We hope still, though, ...". There, "still" means "continuing at the current time", not like a form of "however". The rest, as Tarheel said, are superfluous/tautologous.

I consider the use in the second link tautologous too.
 
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