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Webster 1913 Edition
Bitterly
Bit′ter-ly
,adv.
In a bitter manner.
Webster 1828 Edition
Bitterly
BIT'TERLY
,adv.
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)
- 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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Translations
in a bitter manner
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