embitter
Example Sentences
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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
The unhappy decline that constituted the second act was, in Pastor’s view, an uncannily precise preview of the economic, social and political discontents that now embitter our national politics.
From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2018
Hardship did not embitter Lucy Larcom, and she never lost her love of books and gift for poetry.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
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The process can embitter victims if they feel their experiences are being weighed against each other.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2012
Then you would know the difference, and it would embitter your whole existence with a quiet, private, unsuspected bitterness, of which you can have no conception.
From Tiny Luttrell by Hornung, Ernest William
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.