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Type Words
Synonyms bitter
Type of taste sensation, gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, taste, taste perception
Type Words
Synonyms gall, rancor, rancour, resentment
Type of hostility, ill will, enmity
Has types score, grievance, grudge, heartburning, huffishness, sulkiness, enviousness, envy
Derivation bitter
Type Words
Synonyms bitter
Type of taste property
Has types acerbity, acridity, acridness
Type Words
Synonyms acerbity, acrimony, jaundice, tartness, thorniness
Type of disagreeableness
Derivation bitter

Examples of bitterness

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In 2001, Rivera and the Yankees tasted the bitterness of the late-game collapse.
From the nytimes.com
Tishkoff wonders why, then, Europeans lost some the ability to sense bitterness.
From the newscientist.com
Brown said he does not harbor any bitterness regarding his time with the Lakers.
From the ocregister.com
Boxed in, the Viet Cong's 502nd Battalion fought with the bitterness of despair.
From the time.com
It's still going to be hard, because we're getting rid of decades of bitterness.
From the edition.cnn.com
Where's the infidelity, the bitterness, the petty public games of one-upmanship?
From the hecklerspray.com
No wonder it attracts the cynicism and the bitterness we see in the posts above.
From the guardian.co.uk
Whether bitterness or cynicism, it doesn't make much difference, they are facts.
From the guardian.co.uk
Cynicism and bitterness quite plainly there even when he was cracking the jokes.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • Resentment: a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
  • A rough and bitter manner
  • Bitter: the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
  • The property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
  • Make bitter
  • (bitter) piercingly: extremely and sharply; "it was bitterly cold"; "bitter cold"
  • Resentment can be triggered by an emotionally disturbing experience felt again or relived in the mind. When the person feeling resentment is directing the emotion at themself it appears as remorse.
  • (Bitter (album)) Bitter is the third solo album by Me'shell Ndegeocello. It was released August 24, 1999 on Maverick Records. The album peaked at #105 on the Billboard Top 200 list in 1999. ...
  • (Bitter (beer)) Bitter is an English term for pale ale. A boy's bitter has less than 3% alcohol by volume, while a strong bitter has at least 7%. Bitters may be a dark amber, or as light in appearance as a golden ale.