bitterest

• True, the value which she set upon it was rather for its adjuncts than for itself; but whatever its value, one thought was uppermost, and was bitterest--she had missed it The article was Don Juan. —  Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada
• Of all the martyrdoms allotted to love's victims, she was enduring the bitterest, which is the martyrdom of frustration. —  The Miller Of Old Church
• His epigrams were the bitterest, the least laboured, and the truest, that ever were written Sir John Suckling was of the same mercurial stamp, but with a greater fund of animal spirits; as witty, but less malicious. —  Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution
• You recall the bitterest struggles of my childhood. —  Back to Methuselah
• The pamphlet was printed in the smallest type, and consisted of extracts from various prophetical authors, pointing out the enormity of the Babylonian Woman, of the City of Scarlet, or some such thing; the gist being the bitterest--almost scurrilous--attack on the Church of Rome. —  The Open Air

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