bitterly
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“You put into me the perception of the incomparable,” Bettany version says in a bitterly mournful prayer at the end of the second episode, “and then ensured that I would know myself forever mediocre.”
From Salon ● May 16, 2026
But many Californians complain bitterly about the cost of living, squeezed by sky-high housing prices and the most expensive gas in the country.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
To the west it borders on a profoundly and bitterly estranged Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
"There is no international law in the world," he says bitterly.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026
Now Mrs. Frisby’s spirits fell again, and she said, almost bitterly: “You are joking, sir; you are not serious. No rat could move my house. It is far too heavy, much too big.”
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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