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

Mr. Cross “never condoned the kidnappers,” his son-in-law said, but neither did he allow “what they did to embitter him or eat into his enjoyment of life thereafter.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2021

Hardship did not embitter Lucy Larcom, and she never lost her love of books and gift for poetry.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

But she did not let the experience diminish or embitter her.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2014

He must force her away from Elmdale, from the hourly possibility of some ghastly revelation which would darken and embitter her life.

From The House 'Round the Corner by Tracy, Louis