half-bitter

If you are retiring to do your ABC blog, just, please God, don't leave us one of those half-bitter, sad "I just don't have the time and I get so tired of how mean everyone is" good-bye posts.

Stuff you should buy David Campbell 2008

Lyasa offered another soft laugh, half-sweet, half-bitter.

The White Order Modesitt, L. E. 1998

"We all find that out," Anna said with a half-bitter laugh.

The Soprano Sorceress Modesitt, L. E. 1997

Another half-bitter reference to Sheen's own feelings.

Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981

Then a queer little smile, half-bitter, half-tender, curving his lips, he added: "I shall always have this one day for which to thank whatever gods there be."

The Hermit of Far End Margaret Pedler

Still there was no one like our colonel; and, in the serene atmosphere of his wise unquestioned leadership, petty bickerings, minor personal troubles, and the half-jesting, half-bitter railings against higher authority, had faded away.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

For a moment the Vicomte hesitated, but he knew that not even he was wanted inside that empty tent, and a half-bitter, half-sad feeling that the perfect friendship and confidence that had existed between them for twenty years would never again be the same came to them, the regretful sense of inevitable change, the consciousness of personal relegation.

The Sheik

The half-sad, half-bitter mouth smiled faintly, the smile accentuating that upward curve at the corners of the lips which lent such an unexpected sweetness to its stern lines.

The Splendid Folly Margaret Pedler

And upon this half-bitter, half-proud speech of Mark

Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin

Ostrovsky, and Ivan's passionate young admirer Rimsky-Korsakow, sat there in silence, all of them thinking the same half-bitter, half-resentful thoughts.

The Genius Margaret Horton Potter