Preposition: about

• way: Do you feel bitter about the way it worked out?

Modifying Another Word

• slightly: They grow in closely packed rows on a tall, thick stalk, and have a pungent, slightly bitter flavor.

• increasingly: But the whole problem has to be viewed in the context of increasingly bitter club versus country divide.

• somewhat: But in his later years he has become, you know, somewhat bitter and vindictive.

• extremely: Poisoning by the plant very rare due to its extremely bitter taste.

• rather: Ruth Wilkin of Leeds University SU was rather bitter, It's quite clear that the North has the best universities in the country.

• particularly: Ashton political life was particularly bitter in these years with Mason bearing the brunt of the Tory attack.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• find: They may find coffee too bitter, soft drinks too sweet, and full cream milk too fatty.

Modifies a noun

• pill: There was, however, one bitter pill to swallow.

• disappointment: Despite his bitter disappointment, Baird continued his experimental work in color television.

• aftertaste: However they find that the feast has a bitter aftertaste.

• taste: A bitter taste in the mouth can take the pleasure out of eating.

• rivalry: In their own churches they may have witnessed bitter rivalry among the elders.

• feud: Julia Roberts has spoken to her mother for the first time in six months healing a bitter family feud.

Used with adjective complement

• taste: Take care not to let the mixture burn or the stock will taste bitter.

• feel: Would I forever feel bitter about not being a medic?

• become: A lot of cops become bitter, I suppose, or to put it another way: cynical.

• seem: He was aggressive, combative, sudden of quarrel, and he often seemed unnecessarily bitter of speech.

• grow: Men obeyed their base immediate motives until the world grew unendurably bitter.

• turn: It did not take long for the gipsy charm offensive to turn bitter.