bitter
Example Sentences
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“OUCH. It’s almost painful to consider that these folks are SO bitter that they can’t ever laugh.”
From Salon • May 20, 2026
He is giving you this money out of his own pocket because you are his sister and he understands that you have had to swallow a bitter pill.
From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026
“But each disaster is a teachable moment, and I’m afraid the defensive tone of this report suggests a limited institutional capacity to learn from bitter experience.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Even the famous concluding quintet, “To leave, to break,” a bitter dissection of love, was noisy rather than poignant or profound.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
There was an etching of frost forming along the corner of the window, the glass doing little to keep the bitter fingers of winter from finding their way inside our railcar.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
Vocabulary lists containing bitter
The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 3
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