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Discover LudwigThe phrase "almost bitter" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a taste, feeling, or sentiment that is close to being bitter but not quite there.
Example: "The coffee had an almost bitter aftertaste that lingered on the palate."
Alternatives: "nearly bitter" or "slightly bitter".
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The second movement is scherzolike but biting, almost bitter.
To the Editor: I read your article with chagrin and an almost bitter wistfulness.
Airy panna cotta snapped into focus by an almost bitter green-tea gelée ($8).
But then the salt hit me, followed by something savory and almost bitter.
But Beware of Pity ends with a note of almost bitter disillusionment.
I was very angry that she was made to look almost bitter.
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Or the almost-bitter past.
The campaign has been almost as bitter as the tussle over electoral reform.
At the same time, officers are almost unanimously bitter over a pay scale roundly criticized as miserly in an economy that for years has offered attractive alternatives.
"I'll remember this my whole life – my whole damn life," she said at the end, for a moment almost sounding bitter with regrets.
The irony that such gifts to the sick could come from someone who died as she did, aged 71, is almost too bitter to ponder.
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