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bitterly

/ˈbɪtəɹli/ adverb B2
  1. In a bitter manner.
  2. Extremely.
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One evening Marilla, coming in from the orchard with a basket of apples, found Anne sitting along by the east window in the twilight, crying bitterly.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 123 · C1
Bitterly did she repent the license she had given to her imagination.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 166 · C1
I was bitterly disappointed, Diana.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 231 · C1
I cried bitterly, and asked Miss Stacy to forgive me and I’d never do such a thing again; and I offered to do penance by never so much as looking at Ben Hur for a whole week, not even to see how the chariot race turned out.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 246 · C1

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