embittered

Example Sentences

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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

Set in 1872, Forsaken, focuses on embittered gunslinger John Henry Clayton's return to his hometown and his attempts to build bridges with his estranged father.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2024

Vance cast his fellow Appalachians as stuck and embittered with a country that moved on without them.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2024

He cried for himself and for his family—for his parents, who had lived their whole lives in a kind of dreamless and embittered sleep, haunted by phantasms and suckered by the empty promises of pitchmen.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson