embitter

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

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

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

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2012

Or will the attack embitter powerful factions in the government and alienate them further from the notion of an alliance with the United States?

From Slate ● May 2, 2011

“I just never happened to get caught in a serious situation that would embitter me to the point where I would continue in that pattern.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2010

I may add that no nation can afford to embitter its own writers against itself by producing in their minds a sense of injustice.

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

It is the sequel that embitters the record.

From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Fitzroy, Robert

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

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

Vance cast his fellow Appalachians as stuck and embittered with a country that moved on without them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2024

This happens when the child who is not missing begins to feel embittered toward the child who is missing purely because he or she is getting all the attention of everyone around.

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley

Rather than embittering him, Mr. Adams has said, the trauma helped coax him to become a police officer and change the profession from within.

From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2021

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

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 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