embitterment

Example Sentences

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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

He did not expect it, but the final act of the tragedy was also his final embitterment.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is one of the main factors in the progressive embitterment of the Labour situation that whatever business is afoot—arbitration, conciliation, inquiry—our contemporary system presents itself to Labour almost invariably in a legal guise.

From An Englishman Looks at the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)