The phrase "albeit bitter" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to introduce a contrasting idea or to acknowledge a negative aspect of a situation while still recognizing a positive one.
Example: "The outcome of the project was a success, albeit bitter, as it came at a significant cost to the team."
Alternatives: "though unpleasant" or "even if painful".
For a humourist, political watcher and journalist, 2016 must feel like a vintage year – albeit a bitter one.
By the 6th century Mayans had discovered ways to turn the cocoa bean into chocolate, albeit a bitter unsweetened version of what we know today.
The Laos cloud seeding op erations did provoke, however, a lengthy and bitter, albeit secret, dispute inside the John son Administration in 1967.
Throughout the book, Breger strives to put himself in a middle position, between what he takes to be the hagiographic approaches of Freud's two best-known biographers, Ernest Jones and Peter Gay, and the bitter, albeit often eloquent, denunciations of Frederick Crews.
The one-sided effort of austerity and restructuring that the Troika has insisted on, albeit a necessary bitter medicine, has completely ignored or miscalculated the humanitarian implications of the lack of an economic growth strategy.
He said, albeit in a bitter manner, which I couldn't tell if it was caused by acquiescing to her question in the first place, or to his actual answer to it, that he was a musician and also a waiter.
Where Nicky is a free-and-easy ladies' man, Mikey is a responsible family man a role that, as in "Husbands," comes with bitter implications (albeit radically different ones than emerge in Cassavetes's film).
Where Nicky is a free-and-easy ladies' man, Mikey is a responsible family man — a role that, as in "Husbands," comes with bitter implications (albeit radically different ones than emerge in Cassavetes's film).
Although Britney was visibly shaken and reluctant to shatter his illusions, Simon delivered the bitter pill, albeit more gently than usual.
In his diaries, both form and content are unrestrained, but they're no less plays, albeit monologues for a not-quite-solipsistic, sometimes bitter, often loving, amiable, humane, vulnerable, intelligent, droll, melancholy, curmudgeonly protagonist called "Simon Gray".
