embitter

The plan, if it passes in its original form, could lead to legal measures that would embitter the everyday lives of the migrants and, critics say, make their stay in Israel intolerable.

From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2023

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

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

Their idea, no doubt, was to break down his health and embitter his existence by successive law-suits.

From The Crime of the Congo by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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’s no good his being modest; that only embitters it.

From Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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

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

Rosalynn was especially embittered by the election loss.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2024

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

His United Nations service began with an embittering defeat in a vote on whether to seat a delegation from China.

From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2018

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

Hale soon went bankrupt—an embittering failure that only stoked the furnace of his ambition.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann