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
Set in 1872, Forsaken, focuses on embittered gunslinger John Henry Clayton's return to his hometown and his attempts to build bridges with his estranged father.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2024
Brash British playwright Jez Butterworth’s “The Hills of California,” a Chekhovian drama with a modern edge about the vigil variously embittered sisters are holding for their dying mother, who unsuccessfully groomed them for showbiz glory.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 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
