A rough and bitter manner.
The quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines.
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Examples for "bitterness "
Examples for "bitterness "
1 The court cases and scandals brought recreational drugs, depression and increasing bitterness .
2 Asperity and bitterness must be buried in the graves with the dead.
3 The project has caused much bitterness among well-to-do Jews in the area.
4 The coldness of the clergyman was forgotten in the bitterness of self-reproach.
5 Many said the government had compounded their bitterness by curtailing collective mourning.
1 There is often much exaggeration, much unfairness, much acrimony in their debates.
2 We are witnessing a time of multiple crises and much international acrimony .
3 He replied with little force and great acrimony ; but no rejoinder appeared.
4 The flapper was showing traces of tears, but also a considerable acrimony .
5 Mutual acrimony is the currency of the U.S.-Pakistani relationship, not clean breaks.
1 Purpose: A new method of palliation of malignant obstructive jaundice is presented.
2 The doctors were puzzled by the fact that it wasn't quite jaundice .
3 A 64-year-old man presented with right upper-quadrant pain, jaundice , and weight loss.
4 But this just being short of jaundice all the time confused them.
5 The main admission diagnoses were early onset neonatal sepsis, jaundice and prematurity.
1 There was an outward starch and acerbity produced by toil and danger.
2 He must be forgiven if he seemed to speak with unusual acerbity .
3 With acerbity , he said, That doesn't seem to be any of my business.
4 With some acerbity I pointed out the futility of his proposition.
5 Howson was rather surprised at the sudden acerbity of her tone.
1 So like a man's observation, that, continued the Colonel with much tartness .
2 Emma swallowed a sip of Perrier, its bubbling tartness tickling her nose.
3 Carrots and onions contribute sweetness as well as aroma, wine tartness and savoriness.
4 Lady Salkeld looked at him, sniffed, and said with some tartness :
5 The tartness of the blueberries was tempered by the sweet pinkberries.
1 In their thorniness , however, there is no malice, only some malic acid.
2 She was right about the thorniness of the situation, Rozsak reflected.
3 The most characteristic feature of the jungle was its thorniness .
4 It was a rank wild growth, with many green leaves on it still, and made an impression of thorniness .
5 Cunning little thing, for all her thorniness and her sharpness with him, which he now saw that he had deserved....
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