embitterment

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Noun
  • Yosef’s relationship with his sister, Azraa, hums with the familiar chords of siblinghood — antagonism and refuge intertwined.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 7 Mar. 2026
  • All the while, Oh and Comer’s slow dance of antagonism crossed with infatuation is some of the most thrilling acting in recent television memory.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The result thus far has been the intensification of American military pressure and the permanent alienation of Iran’s neighbors, some of whom will support or even join the war against it.
    Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026
  • An illegible city produces anxiety, alienation and disorientation.
    Yunus Emre Tozal, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • On her new single—a piano ballad of dubious sincerity—Canadian DJ and songwriter Brat Star invokes Paltrow’s greatest role as one-third of a holy trinity of disaffection.
    Walden Green, Pitchfork, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Ultimately, many of these books’ characters are portrayed as avatars of resentment and disaffection, men who seem to fall prey to the rigid vision of masculinity dispensed by real-life adherents to the manosphere.
    Eric Magnuson, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The novel’s efforts at cognitive estrangement begin with home and family life.
    Stephanie Burt, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2026
  • But the old friends buried the hatchet after a decade of estrangement a couple of years ago, and sat down for lunch together at the Pierre hotel in New York City.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 30 Mar. 2026
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“Embitterment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embitterment. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.

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