WASHINGTON — An eyebrow-raising poll where voters said “liar” was the one word they most associated with Hillary Rodham Clinton has touched a nerve with the Democratic presidential front-runner.

“It certainly doesn’t make me feel good,” Clinton said when asked about the poll during an interview with MSNBC’s ­Andrea Mitchell on Friday.

“Dishonest” was the second-most-mentioned word in the Quinnipiac University poll last month, which included Democrats as well as Republicans and independents.

Clinton refused to apologize for setting up a private server to handle official e-mails when she served as secretary of state — a controversy that her campaign hasn’t been able to shake

“Well, it wasn’t the best choice. And I certainly have said that,” Clinton acknowledged in her third sit-down interview since announcing for president.

The closest she came to an explanation was: “I was not thinking a lot when I got in [to the State Department]. There was so much work to be done.”

She wouldn’t apologize, saying only she was “sorry” the ­issue was “confusing” voters.

“At the end of the day I am sorry that this has been confusing to people and has raised a lot of questions, but there are answers to all these questions,” she said.

Clinton didn’t respond ­directly to a question about why she wiped her server clean of what she said were personal messages after handing over thousands of official e-mails to the State Department.

She said her lawyers were “overly inclusive” in deciding what to turn over, and that State was returning 1,200 e-mails she delivered that the feds deemed were “totally personal.”

Although she played defense on the e-mails, Clinton showed more swagger lacing into Donald Trump, who has gone after longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin, Republican rivals and even NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who wrote an article blasting the leading GOP presidential contender.

“[Trump] has attacked so many people, including my close aide and myself and many other people,” Clinton complained.