embitterment
Example Sentences
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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
So, perhaps, Shakespeare said to himself in those years when, as we imagine, melancholy and embitterment often overclouded his sky, though they did not obscure his faith in goodness and much less his intellectual vision.
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Andrew Cecil Bradley
