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Webster 1913 Edition


Bitterly

Bit′ter-ly

,
adv.
In a bitter manner.

Webster 1828 Edition


Bitterly

BIT'TERLY

,
adv.
With a bitter taste.
1.
In a severe manner; in a manner expressing poignant grief; as, to weep bitterly.
2.
In a manner severely reproachful; sharply; severely; angrily; as, to censure bitterly.

Definition 2024


bitterly

bitterly

English

Adverb

bitterly (comparative more bitterly, superlative most bitterly)

  1. In a bitter manner.
    • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:
      Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
    • 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, Everton 0-2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
      Liverpool's £58m strikeforce of Andy Carroll and Luis Suarez scored the goals that settled the Merseyside derby at Goodison Park - but Everton were left complaining bitterly about Jack Rodwell's controversial early red card.

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