embitter
Example Sentences
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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
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
Hardship did not embitter Lucy Larcom, and she never lost her love of books and gift for poetry.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
Joel L. Fletcher, an owner of Fletcher/Copenhaver Fine Art gallery in Fredericksburg, Va., which specializes in Ms. Aymé’s work, said the tragedies did not embitter her or quash her creativity.
From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2015
But all the excellence that Jacob ascribes to Reuben serves only to embitter the doom pronounced upon him.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Dods, Marcus
Vocabulary lists containing embitter
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: en-, em-
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Novel Study: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Chapters 1–6
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The Devil in the White City
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