• Bitterly

    Pronunciation

    Origin

    bitter + -ly

    Full definition of bitterly

    Adverb

    bitterly

    1. In a bitter manner.
      • 1898, Winston Churchill, The Celebrity Chapter 4, 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, 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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