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- adjective
superlative form ofbitter : mostbitter . mostbitter .
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Examples
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Love of thee makes me taste of death in bitterest pungency. —
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He launched what analysts Friday called his bitterest anti-white tirade since coming to power in 1980, referring to whites as "the enemy" who deserved to be shot and to have "your carcases being thrown to dogs and vultures."
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Of all the martyrdoms allotted to love's victims, she was enduring the bitterest, which is the martyrdom of frustration.
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Of all the martyrdoms allotted to love's victims, she was enduring the bitterest, which is the martyrdom of frustration.
The Miller Of Old Church Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909
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You recall the bitterest struggles of my childhood.
Back to Methuselah George Bernard Shaw 1903
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As the historians Mark Edward Lender and James Kirby Martin put it, “The bitterest denunciation of distilled spirits came in the immediate aftermath, and as part of the zeitgeist, of the Revolution.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Faith and the friendships it creates transcend even the bitterest of worldly rivalries.
Tim Tebow's Role Model Micheal Flaherty 2012
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Rifle and axe went up and down, hit or missed with monotonous regularity; lithe bodies flashed, with wild eyes and dripping fangs; and man and beast fought for supremacy to the bitterest conclusion.
THE WHITE SILENCE 2010
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The study of war elucidates some of mankind's noblest virtues and bitterest vices.
Our Elite Schools Have Abandoned Military History Peter Berkowitz 2011
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However, when the bitterest feuds had been resolved and it was the wounded survivors against the Cult, then I would try to form an alliance with whoever looked strongest.
Archive 2010-02-01 2010
bilby commented on the word bitterest
"Those were the bitterest weeks of my life. With a sort of despair I took my evening walk in the early winter days past their house but never saw anybody, and as I turned up the muddy lane behind it and heard the wind moaning in the branches, and looked down across the sloping field to their house, nestling in the hollow with the light shining brilliantly in the kitchen where the girls did their homework, it seemed to be full of all the beauty I would never know."
- Frank O'Connor, 'The Duke's Children'.
September 5, 2008