I suppose "Bitter" is equivalent to bad in terms of feelings and emotions.  On Cambridge Dictionary website, bad feeling means"

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"a situation in which people are upset or angry with each other:

I'd like to complain to the neighbours about the noise, but I don't want to cause any bad feeling (between us)."

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(Cambridge University Press 2018, https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/bad-feeling)