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Definition of bitter-ender in English: bitter-endernoun informal 1A person who holds out until the end, no matter what. 〈主南非〉坚持到底者，拼到底的人 bitter-enders who speak their mind no matter what the cost Example sentencesExamples - I'll ask him what happened to those bitter-enders and the dead-enders the Pentagon used to talk about.
- Whether they deserved the bulk of the credit for the downfall of the Treaty or not, Sherman and his fellow bitter-enders were both relieved and satisfied by the conclusion to Wilson's peace proposal.
- Even bitter-ender James Carville has conceded: ‘We are an opposition party, and as of right now, not a particularly effective one.’
- The vast majority were not bitter-enders, not insurgents and certainly not terrorists.
- The purpose of the tapes was to rally these small group of bitter-enders.
- Barring some bitter-enders, it seems many former Taliban fighters now realize their future lies within the country's democratic political process, not against it.
- Otherwise, he becomes a bitter-ender whose vote may in the end not be big enough to matter anyway, thus squandering his advantage.
- Yet the American bitter-enders see no problem with Americans dying in the streets in an American city.
- His own war name was ‘Bittereinder ‘(bitter-ender).’
- Even de la Rey, an arch bitter-ender, said that everything had been sacrificed - cattle, goods, money, wives and children - and asked, ‘Isn't this the bitter end?’
- The fact of the matter is, we are facing a small group of bitter-enders who are basically trying to turn the tide of history.
- Remember when he said the insurgency was comprised of dead-enders, bitter-enders and thugs?
- We have heard such language as dead-enders, bitter-enders before, without discrete, definitive descriptions of the enemies that are being faced by American troops.
- What we are fighting here are a bunch of bitter-enders from the old regime.
- Not the least among these bitter-enders was Keynes, whose magnum opus - his misnamed ‘General Theory’ - revolves around little more than an attempt to dismiss his own cheap misrepresentation of what Say had taught.
- At least Paulitz adds that Hutchison will not necessarily be a bitter-ender: ‘It's not no-repeal-ever.’
- Council members are scornful of U.S. suggestions that they forgo the death penalty for criminals convicted of war crimes; they think a tougher message needs to be sent to bitter-enders.
- 1.1 (in southern African history) a Boer who refused to surrender towards the end of the Second Boer War.
（南非历史上第二次布尔战争中）拼到底的布尔人 Example sentencesExamples - His father was a bitter-ender in the Boer war who refused to give up his guns in defeat and named his son after a dead Boer general.
- A "bitter ender," he soldiered as a guerrilla through the last stages of the war, riding south on that astonishing, bold Boer invasion of Cape Colony.
- De Wet was left the remaining die-hard against surrender, a true bitter-ender.
Definition of bitter-ender in US English: bitter-endernounˈbidərˌendər informal A person who holds out until the end, no matter what. 〈主南非〉坚持到底者，拼到底的人 bitter-enders who speak their mind no matter what the cost Example sentencesExamples - The vast majority were not bitter-enders, not insurgents and certainly not terrorists.
- Yet the American bitter-enders see no problem with Americans dying in the streets in an American city.
- His own war name was ‘Bittereinder ‘(bitter-ender).’
- Council members are scornful of U.S. suggestions that they forgo the death penalty for criminals convicted of war crimes; they think a tougher message needs to be sent to bitter-enders.
- I'll ask him what happened to those bitter-enders and the dead-enders the Pentagon used to talk about.
- Barring some bitter-enders, it seems many former Taliban fighters now realize their future lies within the country's democratic political process, not against it.
- Not the least among these bitter-enders was Keynes, whose magnum opus - his misnamed ‘General Theory’ - revolves around little more than an attempt to dismiss his own cheap misrepresentation of what Say had taught.
- Remember when he said the insurgency was comprised of dead-enders, bitter-enders and thugs?
- Even bitter-ender James Carville has conceded: ‘We are an opposition party, and as of right now, not a particularly effective one.’
- Otherwise, he becomes a bitter-ender whose vote may in the end not be big enough to matter anyway, thus squandering his advantage.
- We have heard such language as dead-enders, bitter-enders before, without discrete, definitive descriptions of the enemies that are being faced by American troops.
- Whether they deserved the bulk of the credit for the downfall of the Treaty or not, Sherman and his fellow bitter-enders were both relieved and satisfied by the conclusion to Wilson's peace proposal.
- The fact of the matter is, we are facing a small group of bitter-enders who are basically trying to turn the tide of history.
- At least Paulitz adds that Hutchison will not necessarily be a bitter-ender: ‘It's not no-repeal-ever.’
- The purpose of the tapes was to rally these small group of bitter-enders.
- Even de la Rey, an arch bitter-ender, said that everything had been sacrificed - cattle, goods, money, wives and children - and asked, ‘Isn't this the bitter end?’
- What we are fighting here are a bunch of bitter-enders from the old regime.
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