embitter

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

The process can embitter victims if they feel their experiences are being weighed against each other.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2012

This circumstance, coupled with the late bad treatment of Mr. Brace, will embitter our diplomatic relations with Austria.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various

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

A friend like you has the right to be acquainted with the misfortune which I willingly endure, but which saddens and embitters my existence.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Gozzi, Count Carlo

Just make sure you don’t become so aggrieved or embittered that you let it affect your job performance.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026

Many people fear the regime will emerge from the attacks hardened and embittered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

Rapp plays the part of a lover embittered by the lingering presence of a third party in her relationship.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025

As Lamar grins through the bright lights of his victory lap, Drake's chosen to sidestep the beef - bar one embittered freestyle denouncing fake friends - and instead focused on repositioning himself.

From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2025

A lonely, lambent woman looking out at her embittered aunt’s ornamental garden, listening to a tangerine.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

That, in turn, often pitted Palestinians against each other, embittering villagers and city dwellers alike against the governing PA.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2018

It’s making sure your rules address relevant problems without creating new ones — such as embittering workers who might decide to seek a paycheck from a different, and more thoughtful, source.

From New York Times ● May 12, 2018

Wilson’s embittering foreign policy failure was the Senate’s rejection of U.S. participation in the embodiment of Wilsonian aspirations, the League of Nations.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2017

His current policies can be seen as a reaction to those embittering days.

From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2014

“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