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

But now he professed embitterment at lowball paybacks.

From Time Magazine Archive

In embitterment he mentally climbed to still lonelier regions, and saw himself a hermit, who prayed, drank nothing but water, and lived on roots, nuts, and sometimes a fish of his own catching.

From Atlantis by Seltzer, Adele Szold