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Meaning bitterness meaning

What does bitterness mean?

bitterness

— noun (= resentment) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will — noun a rough and bitter manner — noun the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste — noun (= bitter) the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth

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resentment bitter acrimony bitter taste acerbity sourness rancor gall acridness tartness sorrow rancour harshness grudge pain suffering sharpness sadness jaundice grief anger acridity unpalatableness unpalatability unhappiness thorniness spite rigour rigor regret poignancy nip misfortune iciness hatred grievance glaciation gelidity frozeness frostiness frost frigidity freeze exasperation envy enmity distress coolness coldness cold

Topics bitterness topics

What do people use bitterness to talk about?

Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Angry

What words refer to the feeling of anger?

anger annoyance bitterness dander fury grudge indignation ire outrage rage rancor resentment temper wrath

Examples bitterness examples

How do I use bitterness in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Even now, many years after the Cold War, there is still much bitterness between Germans and Russians, especially in areas which were occupied by the Soviet Union.

She said good-bye with a smile, but there was a good deal of bitterness in her heart.

What remains in the heart is memory and bitterness.

He couldn't stand the bitterness of the coffee.

Bitterness and revenge are not part of my character. Life's too short. One shouldn't spend time on bitterness and revenge.

Today young people find themselves, through no fault of their own, living in a world torn by international bitterness and the threat of nuclear destruction.

Don't call sweet that which gives rise to bitterness.

Movie subtitles

It's only to take off the bitterness.

If you are to be one of them, you're welcome to visit our house. but not with a scowl on your face or an old bitterness in your heart.

That's the old redhead, no bitterness, no recrimination, just a swift left to the jaw.

I've got to make you wake up to what you and Sam are doing to this state, troops everywhere, radicals in congress howling their heads off for reconstruction, murders, robberies, bitterness, neighbor against neighbor.

This bitter drink should be a symbol for you of the bitterness and remorse which will remain in your heart, perjury which will burn your lips.

Dear Lord. remove all bitterness from my heart.

I'm ready for your reproaches, bitterness and insults.

Try to remember me, dear Gladys, without bitterness.

I've been drifting and dreaming. and now I seem to be living through the struggle and the bitterness again.

You seem to have lost your zest for bitterness.

And after the war, well bitterness loses its taste, many things are forgotten.

A little more bitterness in that face, my boy.

I won't stifle him with bitterness.

I spoke to you with bitterness just now because tomorrow I must choose a new husband.

The misery upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

Before this venture is concluded, gentlemen. we will taste thejoys of victory. or the bitterness of defeat.

Yet, the bitterness between the Norman conqueror and the Saxon conquered. lay still unhealed.

He knew that if this bitterness was not healed. it would be the worse for England.

Saxons can feel like this underneath the bitterness.

Little more bitterness in that face, my boy.

I apologize for this way of going about things. but. I'd like to see if we can't solve this little problem. without bringing it to the strain and bitterness of a trial.

The herbs remind us of the bitterness of our captivity, Eleazar.

Poverty, prejudice, bitterness, and despair.

No, he has become indifferent to everything But his own bitterness.

Could you put aside your bitterness. long enough to restore your son to you?

Don't look at him with bitterness.

How sad is to leave like a thief, carrying in your suitcase nothing but the bitterness of a defeat!

My father hides his bitterness.

She wouldn't have anyone to whom she could talk anymore to whom she could vent, with her subtle dissatisfaction that bitterness of hers that so many found difficult to understand.

The wedding was a quiet affair and when called upon to enjoy my promotion from lodger to lover did I experience only bitterness and distaste?

As i experienced it, I was able to analyse that feeling with a total lucidity. It wasn't jealousy, for I didn't feel no injustice or bitterness.

You have to say it, yes, aggressively, but also with deep bitterness.

The bitterness of the trees under the sun, the smell of the bombed mountain.

Gone she is. And what's to come of my despised time is naught but bitterness.

Following chapter.. hope, bitterness.

If. it were just me, I would endure any bitterness and hardship, but to think that it might affect the life of the future generation.

I'm thinking of the bitterness, that I shall be ashamed. that I shall weep.

All the human waste is gone -- the greed, the bitterness.

News and current affairs

And so they share the bitterness of those who feel alienated in a world they find bewildering and hateful.

It is a bitterness rooted, in other words, in material causes, not in some fanatical, irrational, and anti-democratic sentiment whose adherents must either be re-educated or crushed.

If they are faced with criticism that they deem unfair, they will resort to the kind of truculence and bitterness that has long thwarted efforts to reach an agreement.

Yet the respect she showed for the various cultures and people whom she was engaging did a great deal to allow such challenges to move forward without bitterness, and in a spirit of real dialogue.

By contrast, when inequality is perceived as the result of a breakdown in trusting relationships, it can lead to bitterness, and, ultimately, social unrest.

In the nearly six months since Hurricane Katrina destroyed half of New Orleans, many storm victims' expectations of help have been dashed, creating a legacy of bitterness.

Of course, the bitterness of Sino-Japanese relations since the end of WWII helps set the stage for such nationalist outbursts, but the roots of China's rage go deeper.

If these two peoples can find common ground to create two states, both democratic and free, after decades of bitterness and bloodshed, the region would have an enormously powerful model of hope.

There is now much more bitterness, fear, and hatred on both sides than in 2000, when the Camp David negotiations failed.

But it also causes a chain reaction of bitterness and hatred.

Today we note with bitterness that there is only one free person in Ukraine: its president.

But the bitterness lingers among Shinawatra's supporters - even now, when his sister, Yingluck, is Prime Minister.

Although Chinese investors have since made numerous lower-visibility plays in US markets, the failed Unocal deal left a legacy of bitterness.

Huawei's recent failed bids for 2Wire and Motorola will only have rekindled this bitterness.

WASHINGTON, DC -For generations to come, the Palestinians will remember the horrific war in Gaza with pain and bitterness.

But, above all, there was his extraordinary, almost unbelievable, lack of bitterness toward his Afrikaner jailers.

But India's lingering bitterness over the 1962 war with China remains.

A pessimist surveying last December's Duma election, with its futile party politics, bitterness, and invective, might compare Russia to Weimar Germany.

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