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a distressing experience or result that is hard to accept (often in the expression a bitter pill to swallow): Being passed over for promotion was a bitter pill to swallow.

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How to use bitter pill in a sentence

Weeks retained an unparalleled legal team, which included bitter political rivals Hamilton and Burr.
New York’s Most Tragic Ghost Loves Minimalist Swedish Fashion|Nina Strochlic|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
For Randy, a 50-year-old ex-Mormon gay man, this cure was a particularly bitter pill to swallow.
Your Husband Is Definitely Gay: TLC’s Painful Portrait of Mormonism|Samantha Allen|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
This is a time for many bitter tears and, one can only hope, a better future.
After Torture Report, Our Moral Authority As a Nation Is Gone|Nick Gillespie|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There was a collective gasp at both the four-letter word and the bitter sentiment it carried.
How Richard Pryor Beat Bill Cosby and Transformed America|David Yaffe, Scott Saul|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST

By halftime a crowd of what appeared to be a few hundred people had amassed in the bitter cold.
‘I Can’t Breathe’ Makes It Onto the Court for Will and Kate to See|Jacob Siegel|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As Felipe talked with him, he perceived even more clearly how bitter and unjust his mother had been to Alessandro.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions!
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
She suddenly sank back upon the pillow and gave up to bitter anguish, when she recalled what had followed.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
Gordon gave a bitter laugh and went on, with the same strange, serious air of explaining his plan.
Confidence|Henry James
If he had only been himself I should have had nothing more to desire, but he was in one of his bitter, sarcastic moods.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay

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