Examples of bitterly

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Any doctrine of collegiality at all was bitterly resisted by a small minority.
She complained bitterly about the lack of information she was receiving.
They all felt let down, and bitterly disappointed.
Finally, several officers complained bitterly about lack of resources to implement policy, particularly where policies required them to take on additional duties.
Trees were wrapped up in bitterly contested conflicts concerning enclosures and the division between customary rights and private property rights.
Here, however, the symbolic changes accompanying police reform (which were bitterly contested by unionists) are dismissed as superficial and meaningless.
Hospital insurance was not as bitterly opposed by the medical profession as medical insurance was, but it probably would not have mattered had it been.
There are hardly any reports of home sickness and many accounts of how the children cried bitterly when they were removed by their parents.
Education, often the most bitterly fought issue, is the glaring omission.
The people were starving and it was bitterly cold, they had nothing.
Shopkeepers required little persuasion that this was the intent and protested bitterly about these apparent attempts to poison relationships between them and their customers.
The climate in this region is cool and pleasant in summer, but bitterly cold in winter.
She left her home and went away, walking on the ice, and weeping bitterly.
Conversely, bitterly opposed schools can sometimes look to a common ancestor.
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