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

It was the kind of case which in the past had often produced, if not actual war, at any rate prolonged embitterment of international relations.

From Time Magazine Archive

If you begin to pout about this party, Lilly, I—" "Oh," cried Lilly, turning her face away to hide the embitterment of lip and still crumbling up her biscuit, "don't worry.

From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie