embittered
Speech parts
1. embittered - Adjective
2. embittered - Verb
Meaning
embittered (comparative more embittered, superlative most embittered)
Deeply hostile, resentful.
an embittered enemy
embittered
simple past and past participle of embitter
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Phrases with the word
Examples
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life.
That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.
Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.