bitterly
/ˈbɪtəli
/adverb
1In an angry, hurt, or resentful way: passengers complained bitterly about grand promises made by the company the two governments quarrelled bitterly over the terms of the loan...
- In the role of the empress, she portrays the transformation from loving-hearted girl to bitterly disillusioned woman.
- At the Union Square market, farmers complain bitterly of shrinking sales.
- I tottered about the streets, grinning bitterly at perfectly respectable people.
2 [as submodifier] To an extreme, forceful, or particularly harsh degree: he was bitterly opposed by the majority shareholder its humour is cutting and bitterly sarcastic...
- Suddenly, a bitterly satirical movie about teenaged criminals was a liability to a film studio.
- It compresses its bitterly touching love story into a 25-minute time frame.
- The industry, moreover, has now convinced almost all governments and world bodies to back the bitterly disputed technology.
3(Relating to wind or weather) to an intensely cold degree: a bitterly cold day...
- I began to reflect on the bitterly frigid winter days of my youth, when I would sit outside in the backyard of the old house.
- The sacrifice is that all of the blood-sucking creatures that get killed during the bitterly icy winters in other parts of the country flourish in ours.
- He officially switched on the lights, and on a bitterly frosty night, the ballpark was looking splendid.