bitterly Copy link Outline 1. ăcerbē (i. e. with austerity)2. aspĕrē (implying anger and harshness)3. infensē (implying hostility and exasperation)4. ămārē (less frequent than the foregoing; and denoting wounded feeling rather than hostility) • bitterly: 1. ăcerbē (i. e. with austerity): he was b. severe upon his son, a. severus in filium fuit, Cic. Also with ref. to grief, vexation: to be b. vexed at anything, aliquid a. ferre, Cic. 2. aspĕrē (implying anger and harshness): Cato spoke b. and violently, Cato a. et vehementer est locutus, Cic. 3. infensē (implying hostility and exasperation): to inveigh b., in. invehi, Tac. 4. ămārē (less frequent than the foregoing; and denoting wounded feeling rather than hostility): to reprimand b., admonere a., Sen.. Suet.