embitter

Example Sentences

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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

But she did not let the experience diminish or embitter her.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2014

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

From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2012

Perhaps such principles produce loneliness; but they strengthen one; at all events they do not embitter the mind and spirit, as some maintain.

From Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life by Frank, Ulrich