embitterment
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Christmas draws our thoughts to the passing of time, and to the concomitant dangers of embitterment, of deterioration as a person.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 19, 2015
Both fail him, but the beauty of “Any Human Heart” is that embitterment never sees its own victories.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2011
Our sense of embitterment, our sense of recompense may not be exactly what you saw at Nuremburg.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2011
And his embitterment against his party for his ignominious defeat in the 2004 presidential primaries probably made him more willing to court that displeasure.
From Time Magazine Archive
Exacerbā′tion, Exacerbes′cence, increase of irritation or violence, esp. the increase of a fever or disease: embitterment.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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