"You know he's been pretty bitter," said Haney carefully.

"They think the whole thing should be abandoned, and they're pretty bitter that that much energy is put into it."

But it could turn out to be a pretty bitter 17 percent.

"I was pretty bitter toward men my senior year," said the young woman, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

"Sharpe's a pretty bitter guy right now," one legislator said.

Jess, some of the goodbyes we had to say were pretty bitter, you know.

"I was pretty bitter about the whole thing for a long time," Jovanovic said in a recent interview.

At first, of course, I'd been pretty bitter about it.

"I was pretty bitter about it," Kurtzman said in 1965.

This all seems to add up to a pretty bitter tirade but I don't mean to.