embitter

Example Sentences

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The plan, if it passes in its original form, could lead to legal measures that would embitter the everyday lives of the migrants and, critics say, make their stay in Israel intolerable.

From Seattle Times • May 4, 2023

As a narrator, Won maintains a weary earnestness, acknowledging the bitterness of his situation without allowing it to embitter him.

From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2023

Hardship did not embitter Lucy Larcom, and she never lost her love of books and gift for poetry.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Or will the attack embitter powerful factions in the government and alienate them further from the notion of an alliance with the United States?

From Slate • May 2, 2011

Greatness as a Mask.—By greatness in our comportment we embitter our foes; by envy that we do not conceal we almost reconcile them to us.

From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm