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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a sort of bitterness" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a feeling or attitude that is somewhat bitter, but not entirely so, indicating a nuance in emotion.
Example: "After the argument, there was a sort of bitterness lingering in the air, making it hard to move on."
Alternatives: "a kind of resentment" or "a type of acrimony."
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By the time he wrote "De Profundis", Wilde's love for Douglas had turned into a sort of bitterness, and the tone of his long letter manages to capture that bitterness as well as the extraordinary attachment he felt for Douglas.
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A: Sort of.
Didn't she ever betray any sort of bitterness or rancor?
"He didn't show any sort of bitterness or remorse regarding the England job," Lancashire opener Paul Horton told BBC Sport.
"It's not without complexity," Mr. Oliver said, "and it's an interesting, broad sort of bitterness, a British type of bitterness, which fits the sort of hops they used".
The White House brewers chose classic British hops, Kent Goldings and Fuggles, which yield a gentle, more generalized sort of bitterness than the sharper grapefruit and pine of American hops familiar in American craft beers.
"I could certainly make the case for looking at last year and having some sort of bitterness about the game, keeping me away from home at a time like that.
Mrs Palin dismisses such charges as "blood libel", arguing that they foster the sort of bitterness their proponents claim to oppose.Right-wing bloggers, for their part, have unearthed several instances where Democrats used equally violent language on the campaign trail.
'That would be a form of bitterness.
"A sort of dream.
"A sort of blank".
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