bitter
Example Sentences
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While potassium salt has a similar flavor, it can develop a slightly bitter taste when heated.
From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026
These demands would be a bitter pill for Washington and its Gulf Arab allies to swallow.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
He isn’t bitter about the way things ended, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
“This will be a bitter pill to swallow,” SGH Macro’s Duy said.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026
Along a front of some 250 miles, German soldiers did an about-face and started to retrace their steps over ground won in bitter fighting during the previous two weeks.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
