embittered

Example Sentences

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Just make sure you don’t become so aggrieved or embittered that you let it affect your job performance.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

Keith, it turns out, is an embittered actor who failed to land a role in the musical from which that song came.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 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

He has served as a historical and cultural consultant since “The Last Samurai,” in which Tom Cruise plays an embittered U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2024

Germans were embittered by the way so many German speakers were placed under the rule of other countries.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman