embitter
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“The two of you came happy to celebrate good news,” Navarrete told the quiet couple in Spanish, “and I came to embitter your day.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
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
The unhappy decline that constituted the second act was, in Pastor’s view, an uncannily precise preview of the economic, social and political discontents that now embitter our national politics.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2018
Hardship did not embitter Lucy Larcom, and she never lost her love of books and gift for poetry.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Come, come," he said; "we must not let this hind embitter the few minutes I can spend with you.
From Norston's Rest by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
The understanding that zoning rules are made to be broken, meanwhile, embitters residents who double down on strict zoning.
From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2021
While aimed at violent extremists, the crackdown embitters many local streamtowns, and large networks grow paranoid over fears of police infiltration.
From The Verge ● Feb. 28, 2020
In her Nobel lecture, Aung San Suu Kyi remarked: “Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.”
From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2017
This highly publicized “war of currents” embitters both Edison and Tesla, who asks his rival late in the drama, “Do you really hate it because it’s dangerous, or because you didn’t invent it?”
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2011
Practically the war has been prolonged, and this policy of disunion alienates, embitters, and prohibits the growth of fraternal sentiments.
From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various
The sombre, respectful tone from 2024 has become more embittered.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Today it is a symbol of a people who still seem poisoned and embittered by an attack that happened a quarter of a century ago.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Mary doesn’t know her biological father, but she was claimed by a Pomo head man and raised by one of his girlfriends, a loyal if embittered woman named Saturnina.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Just make sure you don’t become so aggrieved or embittered that you let it affect your job performance.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
The scattered Hararis still in Israel were Hararis by marriage, cousins, and embittered widows.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s war against the generals who carried out these policies in part reflects his embittering experiences as a junior officer during this period.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Clark’s Kimberly is in point of fact epic, a profile in courage, a heroic display of grace under potentially the most embittering circumstances.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2022
His United Nations service began with an embittering defeat in a vote on whether to seat a delegation from China.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2018
That, in turn, often pitted Palestinians against each other, embittering villagers and city dwellers alike against the governing PA.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2018
“You look like a jailer, Mama,” Alba would say, alarmed at this mania for insuring the future by embittering the present.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
Vocabulary lists containing embitter
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: en-, em-
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