bitter

bitter
01. This medicine is very [bitter] tasting.
02. Winter in Alaska is long and [bitterly] cold.
03. Her mother is very [bitter] over her divorce.
04. The soccer game was a [bitterly] fought match between two teams that have always hated each other.
05. I still feel a lot of [bitterness] towards my boss for not supporting me when the personnel office tried to have me fired.
06. Aspirin has a very [bitter] taste.
07. This still tastes a little [bitter]; we'd better put some more sugar in it.
08. Jean-Jacques Rousseau once observed that patience is [bitter], but its fruit is sweet.
09. There is a Russian proverb which states that a [bitter] truth is better than a sweet lie.
10. The human tongue tastes [bitter] food 10,000 times more strongly than sweet tastes.
11. Andre Bernard Buruch once observed, "I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these things to [embitter] me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort."
12. Max Ehrmann once wrote that if you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and [bitter], for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
13. Access to water is at the root of much of the [bitter] conflict between Israel and Palestine.
14. Winters in Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic, can be [bitterly] cold.
15. In 1988, Morocco and Algeria restored diplomatic relations after 12 years of [bitter] political disputes.

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