10 Metaphors for bitterness

The old mocking bitterness of tongue was back, an even more savage light than Dick remembered that night of their quarrel was in his green eyes.

The bitterness and doubt from which Wayne was suffering were not emotions that disposed him to confidence.

In her letters to Walpole, whenever she compares the present with the past her bitterness becomes extreme. 'J'ai eu autrefois,' she writes in 1778, 'des plaisirs indicibles aux opéras de Quinault et de Lulli, et au jeu de Thévenart et de la Lemaur.

Edward had ever been a favourite with him, but he and Lilla had been so intimate from their earliest childhood, that he had never thought of him as a son; and when the truth was known, so truly did Grahame rejoice, that the bitterness in his earthly cup was well-nigh drowned by its present sweetness.

" The bitterness of his last phrase was savage.

[6037]"Besides their inconstancy, treachery, suspicion, dissimulation, superstition, pride," (for all women are by nature proud) "desire of sovereignty, if they be great women," (he gives instance in Juno) "bitterness and jealousy are the most remarkable affections.

Her mother's bitterness and resentment were the outcome of her anxiety.

Some of the participants have criticised unfavorably the conduct of others, and a bitterness continuing through and after the war has been the result.

In time the bitterness of the dispute became a scandal.

The bitterness of his spirit was wormwood.

10 Metaphors for  bitterness