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
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
“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
The author regards children as sacred, and would not for the world cast anything into the fountain of a young heart that might embitter and pollute its waters.
From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 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
The passions of such persons, when once roused, soon become ungovernable; and that impatience of restraint, which they have been allowed to indulge, embitters the greatest portion of their lives.
From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding
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
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 novel is narrated by Karishma’s embittered son Mohit decades after the events, and his attitude toward most of the family is cynical and contemptuous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
In her most embittered moments we wrapped her in shawls, washed her face from the cistern tap, and brought her glasses of yogurt and rosewater.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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
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
“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
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: en-, em-
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