See bittersweet in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"sense": "both bitter and sweet",
"word": "বিটারসুইট"
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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "both bitter and sweet",
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"sense": "both bitter and sweet",
"word": "katkeranmakea"
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"word": "ភាពល្វីងនៅឡើយ"
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"roman": "dalkom sseupsseulhan",
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"word": "달콤 씁쓸한"
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"roman": "amʹdralyn bajar gunig",
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"word": "амьдралын баяр гуниг"
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"code": "nap",
"lang": "Neapolitan",
"sense": "both bitter and sweet",
"word": "'nzeviero"
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"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "talx-o-širin",
"sense": "both bitter and sweet",
"word": "تلخ و شیرین"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "both bitter and sweet",
"word": "słodko-gorzki"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "both bitter and sweet",
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"code": "ru",
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"code": "si",
"lang": "Sinhalese",
"roman": "titta",
"sense": "both bitter and sweet",
"word": "තිත්ත"
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"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "es",
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"sense": "both bitter and sweet",
"word": "dulce y amargo"
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"word": "matamis na mapait"
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"english": "sweet and sour - literal only as an idiom",
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"sense": "both bitter and sweet",
"word": "mayhoş"
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"word": "shirin achchiq"
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"code": "vi",
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"sense": "both bitter and sweet",
"word": "cay đắng ngọt ngào"
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"text": "The break-up was very bittersweet; they both hurt to end it, but were glad it was over.",
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"ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, chapter III, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "[…] sensations of this kind, however delicious, are, at their first recognition, of a very tumultuous nature, and have very little of the opiate in them. They were, moreover, in the present case, embittered with certain circumstances, which being mixed with sweeter ingredients, tended altogether to compose a draught that might be termed bitter-sweet […]",
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"ref": "1863, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, Pauline's Passion and Punishment:",
"text": "Her eyes still shone upon the ground, and still she prolonged the bittersweet delight at seeing this humiliation of both soul and body by asking the one question whose reply would complete her sad success.",
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"ref": "1898, Lewis Carroll, “Three Sunsets”, in Three Sunsets and Other Poems:",
"text": "He sat beside the busy street,\nThere, where he last had seen her face:\nAnd thronging memories, bitter-sweet,\nSeemed yet to haunt the ancient place:",
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"ref": "2020 January 16, Diana Hubbell, “Bittersweet Berlin goodbye as Clärchens Ballhaus faces uncertain future”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
"text": "While the final festivities were bittersweet, David and Lisa insisted on a party rather than a funeral.",
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"ref": "2023 April 21, John Poulos, “Dominion’s C.E.O.: Why We Settled the Lawsuit Against Fox News”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
"text": "The public has complicated feelings about our decision to end this trial before it ever began, and that’s OK. It’s bittersweet for us, too.",
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"word": "حُلْو وَمُرّ"
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"word": "mi-figue mi-raisin"
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"word": "悲喜こもごも"
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"word": "zaprawiony kroplą goryczy"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Bittersüß"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Bittersüßer Nachtschatten"
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"sense": "bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "στρύχνος"
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"sense": "bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"tags": [
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"word": "fuath gorm"
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"sense": "bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dulcamara"
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"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara",
"word": "bebrukārkliņš"
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"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara",
"word": "karklavijas"
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"sense": "bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara",
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"word": "mèrdou"
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "psianka słodkogórz"
},
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara",
"word": "doce-amarga"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara",
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"sense": "bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara",
"word": "lăsnicior"
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"roman": "pasljón sládko-górʹkij",
"sense": "bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "паслён сла́дко-го́рький"
},
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"sense": "bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dulcamara"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara",
"word": "besksöta"
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"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara",
"word": "yaban yasemini"
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"sense": "bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara",
"word": "Паслін солодко-гіркий"
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"sense": "a vine, of the genus Celastrus",
"word": "кучешко грозде"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a vine, of the genus Celastrus",
"word": "kelasköynnös"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a vine, of the genus Celastrus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dławisz"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "drevogúbec",
"sense": "a vine, of the genus Celastrus",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "древогу́бец"
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"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a vine, of the genus Celastrus",
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"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
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"word": "па̏сквица"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a vine, of the genus Celastrus",
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"masculine"
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"word": "го̏ркосла̄д"
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"sense": "a vine, of the genus Celastrus",
"tags": [
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"sense": "a vine, of the genus Celastrus",
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"word": "gȍrkoslād"
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