embittered

Example Sentences

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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

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

Sweeney said Wednesday his priority this summer is to sign goalie Jeremy Swayman to an extension, preferably avoiding the arbitration process that left the 25-year-old Alaskan embittered last summer.

From Seattle Times • May 22, 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