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

Yet the collapse of Reconstruction in 1877 and the rise of Jim Crow left him embittered, mourning the rollback of hard-won rights.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2024

Germans were embittered by the way so many German speakers were placed under the rule of other countries.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman