bitter

kitkerä

kitkeryys

katkeroitunut

kitkeröittää

kova Having an acrid taste (usually from a base basic substance).

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Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth(nb..).

It was at the end of February,(..)when the world was cold, and a bitter wind howled down the moors(nb..).

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.