embitterment

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Christmas draws our thoughts to the passing of time, and to the concomitant dangers of embitterment, of deterioration as a person.

From The Guardian • Dec. 19, 2015

Both fail him, but the beauty of “Any Human Heart” is that embitterment never sees its own victories.

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2011

Our sense of embitterment, our sense of recompense may not be exactly what you saw at Nuremburg.”

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2011

England, for her part, has suffered a special kind of embitterment in the loss of world stature and of the control of her economic destiny.

From Time Magazine Archive

More intelligent persons will either stand aloof with conscious powerlessness or strike feebly and wildly from a sense of embitterment.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various