Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 62 bitter pill 53 swallow 42 unpalatable 41 stubbornness 41 poisoned chalice 41 galling 40 Pyrrhic victory 39 hardly surprising 39 obstinate 39 grudging 39 churlish 38 implacable 38 pyrrhic victory 38 humble pie 38 palatable 38 scant consolation 38 painful 38 sugar coated 38 abject 37 equanimity 37 hubristic 37 doubtless 37 craven 37 deeply unpopular 37 anathema 36 lament 36 particularly galling 36 paradoxical 36 unwillingness 36 obstinacy 36 begrudging 36 pity 36 bellyache 36 bitter 36 staunch 36 schadenfreude 36 scornful 36 grudging respect 36 foolish 36 recalcitrance 36 betrayal 36 doggedness 36 joyless 36 stinging criticism 36 humiliating 35 roundly criticized 35 obduracy 35 intransigence 35 craw 35 saddest 35 protestations 35 antipathy towards 35 contemptible 35 bitterly 35 chastening 35 ingratitude 35 ungenerous 35 grudgingly 35 unrelieved 35 infuriated 35 maddening 35 paradoxically 35 bile 35 irascible 35 stubborn 35 agonizing 35 humiliatingly 35 universally admired 35 humility 35 jaundiced view 35 pilloried 35 vacillation 35 cherished 35 insistence 35 nettle 35 self pity 35 shame 35 infuriating 35 gutless 35 galled 35 bitterest 35 morsel 35 acquiescence 35 perfectly understandable 35 hard 34 tight fisted 34 gulp 34 sanctimony 34 begrudged 34 pill 34 Schadenfreude 34 excruciating 34 platitude 34 poetic justice 34 unfathomable 34 harder 34 bemoan 34 appeasement 34 wince 34 unenviable 34 folly