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bittersweet

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All his life it would loom bittersweet in memory. ▪ August, despite its slow drag and logistical flaws, still holds surprises, sweet and bittersweet . ▪ Being the last of a storied line may be bittersweet . ▪ Even the one ...

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"Bittersweet" was a single by Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus which reached #10 on the Melbourne Record Charts. It was released on Big Time Records in June, 1985; and was written by Dave Faulkner . "Mars Needs Guitars" (B side), was written by all five ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Staff \Staff\ (st[.a]f), n.; pl. Staves (st[=a]vz or st[aum]vz; 277) or Staffs (st[.a]fs) in senses 1-9, Staffs in senses 10, 1 [AS. st[ae]f a staff; akin to LG. & D. staf, OFries. stef, G. stab, Icel. stafr, Sw. staf, Dan. stav, Goth. stabs element, rudiment, ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. tinged with sadness; "a movie with a bittersweet ending" having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness [syn: semisweet ]

Usage examples of bittersweet.

The ice cream was heavenly, superfatted and smooth, and the chocolate exquisitely light and bittersweet.

The scent of lilacs floated to Mike in a wave that colored his night with way too many bittersweet memories.

In what is always a bittersweet moment in the history of Communist regimes, Stalin would soon direct his savagery toward the intellectuals.

He looked to his scimitars and was flooded by the bittersweet memories of the last time he had put them to use.

Tom checked the bittersweet chocolate he was melting in the top of our double boiler.

Twelve hours without a free moment to think about Zack, to review its bittersweet memories, to replenish forces, to try to put in order its thoughts.

Nor could she bring Justin with her that would bring the media wolf pack howling at their heelsnor could she perform the bittersweet task by telephone.

She paused again, this time to swallow against the bittersweet taste of painful memories.

All the memories surfaced, glorious, bringing with them a bittersweet feeling akin to love.

She nearly dropped a loaf of bread as she recognized the emotion that filled her heart, with both joy and bittersweet pain.

After bittersweet farewells, he slung his pack over his back and followed Chatelaine Dhuoda and her retinue out of the village, into the world beyond.

A bittersweet passage, Ferries ev'rywhere upon that cold and cloud-torn Styx, Bells dolefully a-bang in the Murk, strange little gaff-rigg'd coasters and lighters veering all over the Water, stack'd high abovedecks with Cargo, a prosperous Hell.

Somewhere, along the Avenida Quintana, a man played a bandoneon, squeezing out a typical tango melody, infused with the bittersweet essences of Latin macho, unrequited love, and blood vengeance.

The two blood-brothers tall and small felt to the full then the intoxication of the fog, its surging bittersweet touch-song of hate, its hot promises of all bloodlusts forever fulfilled, an uninhibited eternity of murder-madness.

The eagerness, the bittersweet sense of homecoming, that flickered around his calm logic were Christian Brannock's.