embitter

Example Sentences

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

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

But she did not let the experience diminish or embitter her.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2014

The process can embitter victims if they feel their experiences are being weighed against each other.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2012

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

These things had tended to embitter Walter toward his mother's family, and judging all city people by them, it was hardly natural that he should be very favorably disposed toward little Jessie.

From Jessie Graham by Holmes, Mary J.