bitterness
Example Sentences
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Such a cloying tone from the queen of bitterness!
From Slate • May 6, 2026
To call him a good loser is simply untrue—though from what we can tell the bitterness was always directed inward.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
The rest of the band joins in as Ayewa calls for the listener to look up to a world above war, bitterness, and division.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026
The brown butter lends a nutty undertone and caramel depth, a quiet bitterness that keeps the sweetness in check.
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026
I am not allowed to move so freely in this your world, it said with a trace of bitterness that pooled, oily, in the air between them.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
Vocabulary lists containing bitterness
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ness
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