Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a bitter manner.
- In a severe or harsh manner; sharply; severely; angrily: as, to censure bitterly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a bitter manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
bitter manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb extremely and sharply
- adverb with bitterness, in a resentful manner
- adverb indicating something hard to accept
Etymologies
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Examples
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White also places a dead-looking tree behind the mother and child in his Hope for the Future but adds a noose; this and the mother's dejected pose -- her shoulders drooping, she holds the baby across her lap in the manner of a pieta -- make the title bitterly ironic.
Chicago Reader 2010
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White also places a dead-looking tree behind the mother and child in his Hope for the Future but adds a noose; this and the mother's dejected pose -- her shoulders drooping, she holds the baby across her lap in the manner of a pieta -- make the title bitterly ironic.
Chicago Reader 2010
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White also places a dead-looking tree behind the mother and child in his Hope for the Future but adds a noose; this and the mother's dejected pose -- her shoulders drooping, she holds the baby across her lap in the manner of a pieta -- make the title bitterly ironic.
Chicago Reader 2010
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White also places a dead-looking tree behind the mother and child in his Hope for the Future but adds a noose; this and the mother's dejected pose -- her shoulders drooping, she holds the baby across her lap in the manner of a pieta -- make the title bitterly ironic.
Chicago Reader 2009
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They too depend upon the tolerance of the local authorities but usually the neighbors complain bitterly and the establishment does not stay open for long.
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They too depend upon the tolerance of the local authorities but usually the neighbors complain bitterly and the establishment does not stay open for long.
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So many anti-immigration fanatics complain about how immigrants are supposedly ruining this country, and one of the things they complain about bitterly is how most telphone menus say “Press 1 for English”.
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They too depend upon the tolerance of the local authorities but usually the neighbors complain bitterly and the establishment does not stay open for long.
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They too depend upon the tolerance of the local authorities but usually the neighbors complain bitterly and the establishment does not stay open for long.
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They too depend upon the tolerance of the local authorities but usually the neighbors complain bitterly and the establishment does not stay open for long.
sionnach commented on the word bitterly
"I got there ten minutes ahead of time", said Tom bitterly.
February 27, 2007