adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bitterly cold (= very cold )
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The winter of 1921 was bitterly cold.
bitterly (= with a feeling of great sadness )
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I bitterly regretted my decision to leave.
bitterly (= crying hard )
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I heard the sound of a woman weeping bitterly.
bitterly/deeply/strongly resent
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She bitterly resented his mother’s influence over him.
bitterly/deeply/terribly disappointed
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The girl’s parents were bitterly disappointed at the jury’s verdict.
complain bitterly (= in a very angry way )
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My grandfather’s always complaining bitterly about how expensive things are.
cry bitterly (= because you feel angry or hurt )
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I no longer felt brave or strong, and I began to cry bitterly.
deeply/bitterly/thoroughly ashamed
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Alan was deeply ashamed when he remembered what he’d said.
strongly/bitterly/savagely etc attack sb/sth
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ashamed
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All the other literary women he knew were old bags of whom he would be bitterly ashamed .
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All the people of Sligo feel bitterly ashamed for what happened.
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She was amazed by her own behaviour and between episodes was bitterly ashamed of what was happening to her.
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She felt bitterly ashamed of the way she'd fallen into Rohan's arms.
cold
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I wasn't annoyed except that it was bitterly cold , freezing.
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And Robbo, fresh at Sale from league outfit Wigan, injected his own style on a bitterly cold afternoon.
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It was a Friday and bitterly cold .
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It was bitterly cold and it was raining.
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It was bitterly cold , and Killion wore Dickinson's tunic.
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When morning came, bitterly cold and still dark, she had made up her mind.
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On the bitterly cold morning of Sunday 13 November 1715 the two armies were woken respectively by bagpipes and trumpets.
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The air was bitterly cold and still, with the peculiar lifelessness that pervaded closed-off places.
disappointed
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Our younger child was bitterly disappointed when shown the discreet little warning notices.
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The local residents were bitterly disappointed with the decision.
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Although the victor of a battle at sea, Edward returned home a bitterly disappointed man.
■ VERB
add
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If you find it, Corbett added bitterly to himself.
attack
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In 1987, when an interim report was issued, scientists and environmentalists bitterly attacked its conclusions as misrepresenting the facts.
complain
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The boys gasped, wheezed and giggled; the plumper ones complained bitterly .
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He complained bitterly after being surprised by Pat Buchanan in an early primary about a pollster whose predictions had been too optimistic.
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Student B immediately slams it shut, complaining bitterly of hay fever.
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He complained bitterly of the small attention that was paid to his ideas in his own country.
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Lewis-Ann sat under a huge umbrella, fully clothed, complaining bitterly about being too hot.
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Norah complained bitterly that her style had brought the company free publicity worth far more than it cost.
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And he complains bitterly that exhaustive health tests were not done years ago.
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We all complained bitterly when it looked as though Adobe was restricting the development of PostScript and keeping the market to itself.
contest
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Lincoln's role in determining the future of the Barnes is bound to be contested bitterly .
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Denney created an atmosphere of strict discipline that was resented and bitterly contested by patients for years.
cry
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Bathsheba sat and cried bitterly over this letter.
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She knelt down by the low window, put her head on her arms and cried bitterly .
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I no longer felt strong or calm, and I began to cry bitterly .
disappoint
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Henman will be bitterly disappointed but scarcely surprised.
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In this he was bitterly disappointed .
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Brearley was bitterly disappointed in Firths' reaction to his innovation.
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At the time I was bitterly disappointed .
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She only knew she was bitterly disappointed that she and Seb would not be living under the same roof.
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If so, they must have been bitterly disappointed .
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Black was bitterly disappointed after a disastrous batting collapse threatened to ruin the old boys' Schweppes debut.
divide
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The issue has bitterly divided the community surrounding the common ever since the complex was first mooted.
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Other Republicans say the failure of their first package has left them bitterly divided over what strategy to follow now.
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Maybe it was because the season began with players bitterly divided over a new collective bargaining agreement.
fight
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We fight bitterly over the remaining pieces of the old world.
oppose
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In June 1969 a proposed Connolly commemoration parade through Belfast city centre was bitterly opposed by loyalists.
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When we put this strategy into place. it was bitterly opposed by many people.
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Its members have been responsible for some of the worst atrocities during the Troubles and bitterly oppose any decommissioning.
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Republicans bitterly oppose sampling, saying it invents people for Democratic benefit.
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His strategy of seeking an accommodation with Labour was bitterly opposed by many Liberals.
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It was difficult working at central office among people who had bitterly opposed our plan.
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Consequently it was bitterly opposed by some of the bishops.
regret
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It was an agreement that Lear was to regret bitterly in later years.
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Many who have left the Association already bitterly regret it.
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They had rushed into it too quickly, and lived to bitterly regret their impulsiveness.
regretted
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The accused had been sexually abused himself as a child and now bitterly regretted the harm he had caused his daughters.
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It was a change Rory regretted bitterly .
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Charles bitterly regretted having allowed the cameras in.
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Indeed, he regretted bitterly that his attempts to establish a sixth form in the school had been so abortive.
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The court heard both men bitterly regretted what happened.
resent
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Everything about him assailed her senses in a way she resented bitterly yet seemed unable to do anything about.
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The blacks bitterly resented being searched and insisted on their innocence.
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But there is evidence that working class women bitterly resented what they regarded as middle class interference.
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In government, it is a control function-and managers bitterly resent it.
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It hadn't been her imagination, and she bitterly resented the hypocrisy of his charge.
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She bitterly resented her husband's domination by his younger brother.
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This renewed severity was bitterly resented by the king's subjects.
say
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Ordered, they said bitterly , and never collected.
think
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Just like all the rest, she thought bitterly .
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Still, I thought bitterly , Frank would find truth in what I had written.
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Now that I was alone I thought bitterly of the people I lived with.
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Instead, I thought bitterly , I sewed on, with my skin whole and I sewed for strangers.
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Even if he cared, he probably wouldn't believe her anyway, she thought bitterly .
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Easy for them to say, she thought bitterly .
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Nathan thought bitterly about how it was only his abnormality that made him suitable for Leila's purposes.
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Ray Doyle thought bitterly as the telephone began to ring, jarringly loud, across the room.
weep
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Ana had wept bitterly and Mitch had stated quite categorically that he would be back.
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According to Leopold, young Thomas wept bitterly when the time came to part.
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I was weeping bitterly for most of the time.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It was a decision that she bitterly regretted later in her life.
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Ross complained bitterly that the state didn't care about the homeless.
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The law was bitterly opposed by environmentalists.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even if he cared, he probably wouldn't believe her anyway, she thought bitterly .
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He ignored me, jerked up and down and wailed bitterly as he clung to her.
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How bitterly I thought that night of the happiness I had left that morning!
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It was bitterly cold inside the aluminium hemisphere.
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Republicans reacted bitterly to arrogance, real or imagined, by Democrats and their environmentalists.
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We all know how bitterly cold it is now outside; it is not very cold here, of course.
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When we put this strategy into place. it was bitterly opposed by many people.