embitterment

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Christmas draws our thoughts to the passing of time, and to the concomitant dangers of embitterment, of deterioration as a person.

From The Guardian • Dec. 19, 2015

Both fail him, but the beauty of “Any Human Heart” is that embitterment never sees its own victories.

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2011

Our sense of embitterment, our sense of recompense may not be exactly what you saw at Nuremburg.”

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2011

"I don't trust President Johnson," he once observed, about to refer to a source of his own embitterment, "because of the way he looks on television."

From Time Magazine Archive

The embitterment of hatred is often as unaccountable to onlookers as the growth of devoted love, and it not only seems but is really out of direct relation with any outward causes to be alleged.

From Daniel Deronda by Eliot, George