bitter argument

collocation in English

meaningsofbitterandargument

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bitter
adjective
uk
/ˈbɪt.ər/us
/ˈbɪt̬.ɚ/
Someone who is bitter is angry and unhappy because they cannot forget bad things that happened in ...
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argument
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈɑːɡ.jə.mənt/us
/ˈɑːrɡ.jə.mənt/
a disagreement, or the process ...
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(Definition ofbitterandargumentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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During the past twenty years, this movement has become a major industry, welcomed by many and lampooned by others, and often the cause ofbitterargument.
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It is hard for us to see who has gained anything from this rather prolonged and obviouslybitterargument.
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The hosts from the two shows then engaged in abitterargument.
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When she played the song for her boyfriend, the two got into abitterargumentthat culminated in the end of their 18-month relationship.
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They break up over this, after abitterargument.
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A day or so later, she has abitterargumentwith her father, who reveals he is dying.
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The manuals are destroyed later in the wake of abitterargument.
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Abitterargumentensues and the village decides to hire an assassin from town to carry out the deed.
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In the case of many other acts of regiorialisation and so forth, there have been bitter arguments when perhaps one wished to contract a service.
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There were bitter arguments when those proposals were discussed.
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We have had bitter arguments about the elections.
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I sometimes have bitter arguments with it, but it now understands and knows how the voluntary sector operates.
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What happened was that it deteriorated into two very bitter arguments about the past and the present in the middle of which the future was lost.
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There had been very bitter arguments between him and the oligarchy.
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Soon, bitter arguments occur between the three guys.
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The work provoked bitter arguments among the three.
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As the evening progresses, the party disintegrates into emotional confrontations and bitter arguments as the facade of their happy marriage crumbles.
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These conflicts were usually fairly friendly, but sometimes devolved into rather bitter arguments.
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