embitter

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

Hardship did not embitter Lucy Larcom, and she never lost her love of books and gift for poetry.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

Or will the attack embitter powerful factions in the government and alienate them further from the notion of an alliance with the United States?

From Slate ● May 2, 2011

“I just never happened to get caught in a serious situation that would embitter me to the point where I would continue in that pattern.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2010

Perhaps such principles produce loneliness; but they strengthen one; at all events they do not embitter the mind and spirit, as some maintain.

From Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life by Frank, Ulrich

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

But one of the curses of squalor is that it exacerbates the mildest temper, corrodes and embitters every one it touches.

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)

Crossover expert Paulo Szot was stylish as Signor Naccarelli, Fabrizio’s father, and Kelly Guerra had a fine Sondheim-esque number as Franca, Fabrizio’s embittered sister-in-law.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 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

As Lamar grins through the bright lights of his victory lap, Drake's chosen to sidestep the beef - bar one embittered freestyle denouncing fake friends - and instead focused on repositioning himself.

From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2025

Rosalynn was especially embittered by the election loss.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2024

His great dismay at the announcement of Major Major’s appointment as squadron commander was tinged with an embittered resentment he made no effort to conceal.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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

His current policies can be seen as a reaction to those embittering days.

From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2014

“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