hard to swallow in English

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      "form": "more hard to swallow",
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    },
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          "text": "Coordinate term: unswallowable"
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        "Difficult to accept; hard to acquiesce to."
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        "(idiomatic, figurative) Difficult to accept; hard to acquiesce to."
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        {
          "word": "bitter pill to swallow"
        },
        {
          "word": "difficult pill to swallow"
        },
        {
          "word": "hard pill to swallow"
        },
        {
          "word": "pill to swallow"
        },
        {
          "word": "tough pill to swallow"
        },
        {
          "word": "bad taste in one's mouth"
        },
        {
          "word": "distasteful"
        },
        {
          "word": "dysphagia"
        }
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        "figuratively",
        "idiomatic"
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    }
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  "word": "hard to swallow"
}

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    {
      "form": "more hard to swallow",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "most hard to swallow",
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        "superlative"
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    {
      "word": "difficult pill to swallow"
    },
    {
      "word": "hard pill to swallow"
    },
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      "word": "pill to swallow"
    },
    {
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    },
    {
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    },
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"hard to swallow" meaning in English

Adjective