Dictionary of synonyms

Synonyms and antonyms of the word: bitterly

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Usage examples:

After a positive start to the season with a thumping win over the Wallabies and having sent a large contingent of players to New Zealand early to make sure they were fresh for the match, the Boks will be bitterly disappointed with this result.

Source: https://www.citizen.co.za/news/boks-crumble-all-blacks-four-key-points/

As a result, Craig, 45, a railway worker, his wife Helen and their two children are being forced to endure bitterly cold and damp rooms.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/markets/article-11820019/Bosses-troubled-property-firm-left-family-freeze-REIT-mess.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

But ahead of what threatens to be a bitterly contested election in 2024, the apex court does well to draw a line.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/editorials/rahul-gandhi-defamation-case-trust-of-the-house-8881322/

But in a 21st-century world that is far more interconnected and also more bitterly divided, can it remain relevant?

Source: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/world-news/2023/09/as-the-worlds-problems-grow-more-challenging-the-head-of-the-united-nations-gets-bleaker/

But the official upgraded the offence to a red after a VAR intervention, leaving Davidson bitterly disappointed.

Source: https://www.thenational.scot/sport/23347185.st-johnstone-boss-left-angry-baffled-daniel-phillips-red-card/?ref=rss

Christine Montgomery, expressed that Ecclestone “bitterly regrets the events that led to this criminal trial.”

Source: https://www.chiangraitimes.com/news/bernie-ecclestone-suspended-sentence-after-pleading-guilty-to-fraud/

Even in later life, Russ, who died in 2011, still recalled bitterly how when she stored fungus from a high school science project in the refrigerator at home, her mother reacted with unbridled hysteria.

Source: https://forward.com/culture/570506/joanna-russ-science-fiction-jewish-author-library-of-america/

Families of hostages protested the hearing bitterly, worried that the debate could endanger their family members being held by Hamas.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/11/30/israel-special-court-hamas-attack-october-7-death-penalty/

For example, in a bitterly and evenly divided America, power rotates ideologically between the Republican Party to the right and the Democratic Party to the left to ensure political stability.

Source: https://guardian.ng/features/debate-over-bill-to-rotate-political-offices-in-nigeria-raises-quest-for-inclusion-3/

In blank verse, rhymed couplets and ballad metre, Sullivan puts her formal skills to bitterly effective use, finding a glib jingle in the Grenfell inquiry’s bureaucratese (“this report is avowedly provisional.

Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/best-poetry-books-month-2023-reviews/

“It’s bitterly cold and there’s heavy rain, and people need saving.”

Source: https://canberraweekly.com.au/casualties-feared-after-powerful-7-8-earthquake-in-turkey/

I went to the Playhouse at 4pm on the Saturday intending to queue overnight on a bitterly cold evening in January - they went on sale early in the early hours of the following morning.

Source: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23542619.bruce-springsteen-edinburgh-1981-playhouse-nights/?ref=rss

May we not weep bitterly after we have lost our nose to spite our face.”

Source: https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2023/03/06/a-vote-against-sanwo-olu-is-a-vote-for-destruction-of-lagos-chief-murphy-adebare/

Members of the South West Gippsland Midweek Bowling Group were rugged up last week as they braved bitterly cold conditions for their weekly challenge…this time at San Remo Bowls Club.

Source: https://cranbournenews.starcommunity.com.au/sport/2023-10-10/bitter-breeze-a-battle-for-bowlers/

Most of the records cases had been stored on timber two or three inches above the floor, although Treloar bitterly regretted his decision to abandon this practice shortly before the flood.

Source: https://insidestory.org.au/rock-water-paper/

Nigeria is also a bitterly divided country, facing serious sectarian crises and agitations for the dissolution of the federation.

Source: https://newsdiaryonline.com/is-nigeria-a-failed-state-by-julius-ogunro/

One of an unsuspecting teen's 'bitterly ironic' final words before he was killed in a 'savage and unprovoked' attack was 'safe', a court heard.

Source: https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/unsuspecting-teens-final-words-callous-28166331

Property owners and platforms such as Airbnb complain bitterly about the law, but a fair number of city residents say they favor bringing short-term rentals back into the long-term market to ease a housing crunch.

Source: https://www.legit.ng/business-economy/1552766-new-york-city-cracks-airbnb-short-term-rentals/

She was thrilled that her home town of Irvine was mentioned in the lyrics of a famous Proclaimers’ hit, and the de-industrialisation of the country at the hands of an uncaring doctrinaire Conservative administration in London was bitterly resented.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nicola-sturgeon-resigns-snp-leader-b2283066.html

Teachers’ unions, though, have often bitterly fought the expansion of charter schools, most of which are not unionized.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/us/chicago-mayor-election-education.html