embitter

“The two of you came happy to celebrate good news,” Navarrete told the quiet couple in Spanish, “and I came to embitter your day.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

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

I was determined that if I could help it your contempt should not embitter all our two lives.

From The Truants by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

The understanding that zoning rules are made to be broken, meanwhile, embitters residents who double down on strict zoning.

From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2021

While aimed at violent extremists, the crackdown embitters many local streamtowns, and large networks grow paranoid over fears of police infiltration.

From The Verge ● Feb. 28, 2020

In her Nobel lecture, Aung San Suu Kyi remarked: “Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.”

From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2017

This highly publicized “war of currents” embitters both Edison and Tesla, who asks his rival late in the drama, “Do you really hate it because it’s dangerous, or because you didn’t invent it?”

From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2011

The mellowing touch of time has allayed animosities, subdued old asperities of character, given a larger and more tolerant judgment, cured the morbid sensitiveness that most embitters life.

From The Map of Life Conduct and Character by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

While he declined to endorse a candidate, Sarwar warned the contenders and their teams against infighting as the race becomes more embittered.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

Just make sure you don’t become so aggrieved or embittered that you let it affect your job performance.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026

Keith, it turns out, is an embittered actor who failed to land a role in the musical from which that song came.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

The anguish that erupts during this “Rose’s Turn” represents more than the built-up sorrow of one embittered woman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2025

This happens when the child who is not missing begins to feel embittered toward the child who is missing purely because he or she is getting all the attention of everyone around.

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s war against the generals who carried out these policies in part reflects his embittering experiences as a junior officer during this period.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

His United Nations service began with an embittering defeat in a vote on whether to seat a delegation from China.

From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2018

That, in turn, often pitted Palestinians against each other, embittering villagers and city dwellers alike against the governing PA.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2018

Wilson’s embittering foreign policy failure was the Senate’s rejection of U.S. participation in the embodiment of Wilsonian aspirations, the League of Nations.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2017

“You look like a jailer, Mama,” Alba would say, alarmed at this mania for insuring the future by embittering the present.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende