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bitter English

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bitter

The taste of black coffee and many medicines. This is the taste of a chemical base. ! That tastes bitter. A little angry for a long time. She still feels bitter towards him because of something he did last year. When something is bitter, it is harsh and is usually referring to the cold. There's a bitter wind.

bitter

A type of beer made with hops. "I'd like a pint of bitter please, barman."

bitter

(= acrimonious) marked by strong resentment or cynicism an acrimonious dispute bitter about the divorce very difficult to accept or bear the bitter truth a bitter sorrow (= acerbic, acid, acrid, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, vitriolic) harsh or corrosive in tone an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose a barrage of acid comments her acrid remarks make her many enemies bitter words blistering criticism caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics a sulfurous denunciation a vitriolic critique expressive of severe grief or regret shed bitter tears proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity a bitter struggle bitter enemies causing a sharp and acrid taste experience quinine is bitter make bitter the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft) (= bitterness) the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste (= biting) causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold bitter cold a biting wind (= bitterly) extremely and sharply it was bitterly cold bitter cold

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Simple sentences

This coffee is too bitter.
Whatever happens, I'll stick to my principles to the bitter end.
The medicine tastes bitter.
The weak boy was eliminated from the bitter contest.
This medicine tastes bitter.
This beer tastes bitter.
This coffee tastes bitter.
The coffee is too bitter for me to drink.
I have a fancy for bitter things.
It's bitter cold.
We had many bitter experiences during the war.
His bitter words still rankle in my mind.
He had a bitter experience.
I had a bad cough, so I took the bitter medicine.
These cough lozenges taste bitter but they will do you much good.
They are bitter enemies.
She shed bitter tears.
Bitter medicine will not necessarily do you good.
A good medicine tastes bitter.
The taste of love is bitter.

Movie subtitles

Can I interest you in some bitter melons?
Since that time, both sides lived in bitter hostility.
God's people, when Venus Astarte, daughter of the bitter wave.
Mother's fearfully bitter when she gets her knife in.
Sorry. I was just beginning to enjoy myself, now everything's going to be bitter and beastly with mother in that mood.
No, if that's the one, it's a relief oh, the bitter snobs.
You can't fight and not grow bitter.
I don't feel bitter.
Your mother's rudeness to her yesterday has made both he and charlie ever so much bitter.
And the honey the bees get from heather is very bitter.
He can't stay out in this bitter cold.
My dearest Betsy, Only to you in this bitter moment can I reveal my heart.
See, I couldn't go on with the thought that you might be bitter toward me.
Nothing but locked doors and darkened windows. locked hearts and bitter hatred.
Careful. It's quite bitter.
Misfortune has made them bitter.
He can't stay out in this bitter cold. He'll seek shelter.
But aren't you forgetting. that a man's bitter heart may demand revenge?
We might as well see the whole thing through from the bitter beginning.
Gentlemen, judges and jury members of the high court, if London shall escape the bitter fate of Babylon, of Sodom, of Gomorrah, then do not let yourself be moved by that courtesan!
I'd supposed, with you, that this Sir Guy of Gisbourne was a scurvy fellow and a bitter enemy of ours.
That's a very bitter woman.
Oh, it may taste a little bitter but don't mind that.
Ever since the day Tina went to you instinctively as to a mother you've watched Charlotte turn into a bitter, frustrated woman.
Tell me truly, bitter or not.
Has gone and left a bitter, aging mask.
I am proud too, and bitter with much cause but I did speak first.
White man's words are sweet, but heart bitter.
What Allison doesn't know is that Derek was protecting Scott when he bit her mother, so Allison, you know, is really bitter. What do we do now?
Every day pickled herring. that's bitter.
My life has been bitter and hard.
A man like you knows the bitter and the sweet.
I'm a bitter man.
It's bitter.
Betty Botter bought a batch of bitter butter.
Bitter?
My, it's bitter, isn't it?
I know you've had a bad day, and you feel very bitter.
Two bitter disillusioned shells with nothing to live for.
He seemed very bitter.

News and current affairs

It is a bitter irony that the countries whose soldiers' lives are on the line in Afghanistan are also the biggest markets for Afghan heroin.
Israel's government, meanwhile, has gone out of its way to attack Palestinian hard-line groups, causing more death, damage, and bitter feelings.
But the army's bitter resentiment at the demise of Russia's superpower status, reinforced by the military's own humiliating loss of resources and prestige, is no less evident.
Some of those young men remained in Afghanistan as Mujahideen entered Kabul to take part in the bitter infighting that led to the Taliban's rise.
In Myanmar, despite bitter resistance from the military regime, Ban pressured the authorities to let in humanitarian aid after Cyclone Nargis devastated the country last year.
That bitter memory of oppression and exploitation lingers in the minds of too many Chinese like the afterimage of a bright light long after it has been turned off.
Some Chinese scholars now question the wisdom of allowing the bitter anti-foreignism of the 19 th century to poison China's 21 st century diplomacy.
Mindful of the bitter memory of famine (and trade embargoes), China's government remains obsessed with ensuring self-sufficiency in food.
In fact, they are bitter rivals and will divide opposition vote at the January 3 elections for the lower house of the Parliament (Sabor).
If they fail to work together to stem the revival of bitter historical disputes, their relationship will remain frozen, playing into China's hands.
This is not to say that religious sentiment or, in the case of Germany, bitter historical experience stemming from the Nazi era, had not informed other European debates, say, on the ethics of stem-cell research.
Indeed, the bitter experience WWII taught Europeans how fundamental is the importance of shared values.
But the battle - and even the victory - has left a bitter taste.
By introducing the factor of chance and unpredictability into the game, the ball transforms a bitter and down-to-earth human fight into an epiphany of spirituality and freedom.
There is obviously no guarantee that the oldest son is the best businessman, and the result could be bitter and ferocious sibling rivalry.
The disintegration of the business empire is then accompanied and amplified by bitter disputes between the children and the substitute children.
Until they do, the easy availability of guns all but ensures that massacres like the one in Aurora remain a bitter American refrain.
But the bitter pill of bankruptcies, consolidation, and recapitalization is what the system needs to repair itself.
But, after about 10 years, the success story turned bitter.
To be sure, if this new truce is merely technical, if efforts are not made to stabilize and consolidate it, it could become just one another in a long string of bitter episodes.
Yet my freedom has left a bitter aftertaste, because my imprisonment ended only as the war against my country began.
TOKYO - China is now engaged in bitter disputes with the Philippines over Scarborough Shoal and Japan over the Senkaku Islands, both located far beyond China's 200-mile-wide territorial waters in the South China Sea.
But, whereas the Europe's bloody wars in the first half of the twentieth century have made war there unthinkable today, the wars in Asia in the second half of the twentieth century, far from settling or ending disputes, only accentuated bitter rivalries.
BANGKOK - China's government and Hong Kong's wealthiest man, the much-admired Li Ka-shing, have been waging an acidic spat - one that increasingly looks like a bitter divorce being played out in tabloid newspapers.
Now, the people of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland - not rejected, after all - must behave as well as possible to salvage something workable from the sometimes bitter and divisive arguments.
It is a bitter irony that John McCain, the war hero, is considered a traitor by the conservative wing of his party because he has a compassionate attitude towards undocumented immigrants.
Heat shortages at the height of this year's bitter winter left more than 60 people dead, and Iran is perhaps the only major oil producer whose population claims that economic conditions have worsened despite a tripling of oil prices.
The failure of the June EU summit and the bitter clashes between Tony Blair and Jacques Chirac have even inspired some to proclaim the beginning of the end for Europe.

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