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embittered

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verb

past tense of embitter

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of embittered
Adjective
Though Dyer’s Colette is the closest thing the DMV ensemble has to a lead, its brightest star is Gregg, a fellow examiner played by Tim Meadows with the embittered misery of someone who understands his existence as a cosmic joke. Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2025 In Weimar Germany, embittered veterans of exclusionary traditions fueled fascism. Loree Sutton, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025 The 2022 bare-knuckle holiday sensation Violent Night followed an embittered Santa, armed with lethal combat skills, who takes out a team of ruthless mercenaries to rescue a girl and her family. Justin Kroll, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
Here, the situation has changed, leaving many of the gods either hardened or embittered by the conflict. Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for embittered
Adjective
  • Cate is obviously very angry at Jordan, Emma and Marie, but the moment feels like a callback to two other events — the young woman who almost died in the club in the pilot, whom the gang abandons but Marie saves; and Shetty, whom Cate prevents Marie from saving in the season one finale.
    Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2025
  • An allegedly angry Spears threw a cocktail in his face.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The incident enraged the South Koreans and ran counter to Trump’s push to lure foreign manufacturers to invest in America.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Michael was similarly enraged by the support.
    Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • As my colleague Charlie Warzel wrote in March, on X, the White House is now a troll account, borrowing its snide visual language and tone from some of the internet’s most cynical spaces and deploying this style to mock and dehumanize people.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The whole discourse was so cynical.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Heritage Action’s tactics so infuriated the Republican leadership that Senator Mitch McConnell called on Heritage donors to stop funding the group.
    Andy Kroll, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Johnson's explanations have infuriated Grijalva's supporters.
    Claudia Grisales, NPR, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Dillingham did not grow resentful toward Finch for the lack of playing time.
    Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The Russians, who were resentful of Western efforts to freeze them out over Ukraine, have toned down their anti-American rhetoric.
    Richard Gowan, Time, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Indeed, after the pandemic—which initially decimated sales but then led to a surge in business that overwhelmed REI’s supply chain and operations—Artz made moves that angered many employees.
    Phil Wahba, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The real estate developer who angered Benbrook residents this past summer with his plan to build in a floodplain has been indicted on felony charges in Parker County for alleged misappropriation of funds and theft.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • My theory was that the reserves have more history playing together, with the starters, working in Ingram and without Jakob Poeltl because of a sore back and illness, are still figuring it out.
    Eric Koreen, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • My foot started to really hurt after that, and my leg was a little bit sore.
    Terry Terrones, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Free Press, which Paramount bought for about $150 million, paints itself as a voice of the center but draws its energy from the bitter US culture wars.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • There were glimmers of hope, even in bitter defeat, for the reigning AFC champions.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 12 Oct. 2025

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“Embittered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embittered. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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