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Desperately vs Bitterly - What's the difference?

desperately | bitterly |

As adverbs the difference between desperately and bitterly

is that desperately is in a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly while bitterly is in a bitter manner.

desperately

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly.

    • bitterly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a bitter manner.
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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Everton 0-2 Liverpool , passage=Liverpool's £58m strikeforce of Andy Carroll and Luis Suarez scored the goals that settled the Merseyside derby at Goodison Park - but Everton were left complaining bitterly about Jack Rodwell's controversial early red card.}}