bitterly cold• It was a Friday and bitterly cold.• It was bitterly cold and it was raining.• When morning came, bitterly cold and still dark, she had made up her mind.• He wrote that it was not as he had pictured it as the weather was bitterly cold and wet with some snow.• I wasn't annoyedexcept that it was bitterly cold, freezing.• We all know how bitterly cold it is now outside; it is not very cold here, of course.• On the bitterly cold morning of Sunday 13 November 1715 the two armies were woken respectively by bagpipes and trumpets.• It is bitterly cold outside today, but probably not cold enough to trigger the payments.
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bitterly• Even if he cared, he probably wouldn't believe her anyway, she thought bitterly.• He ignored me, jerked up and down and wailedbitterly as he clung to her.• It was bitterlycoldinside the aluminiumhemisphere.• We all know how bitterly cold it is now outside; it is not very cold here, of course.• How bitterly I thought that night of the happiness I had left that morning!• The law was bitterlyopposed by environmentalists.• When we put this strategy into place. it was bitterly opposed by many people.• It was a decision that she bitterlyregretted later in her life.• Ross complainedbitterly that the state didn't care about the homeless.• Republicans reactedbitterly to arrogance, real or imagined, by Democrats and their environmentalists.
complained bitterly• The boysgasped, wheezed and giggled; the plumper ones complained bitterly.• The socialworkercomplained bitterly about the fact that Mrs X had left the home, and told her off.• Some employees have complained bitterly about the layoffs.• He complained bitterly after being surprised by Pat Buchanan in an early primary about a pollster whose predictions had been too optimistic.• Denise complained bitterly after he died.• Once at her new work place she complained bitterly of how her style had been cramped.• He complained bitterly of the small attention that was paid to his ideas in his own country.• Norah complained bitterly that her style had brought the company freepublicityworth far more than it cost.• We all complained bitterly when it looked as though Adobe was restricting the development of PostScript and keeping the market to itself.