Sentence examples for embitter from inspiring English sources
The word 'embitter' is correct and usable in written English
It is used to mean to cause someone to become very angry and/or resentful. For example, You really embittered her with your rude comment.
verb
To cause to be bitter.
As Derk Jan Eppink, a Dutch journalist who writes on Belgian politics, remarks: "In Belgium the majority has a minority mentality and the minority thinks like a majority .To this day language continues to embitter relations between the two groups.
In other words, inequality is sewn into the fabric of society, and to suggest otherwise is to "aggravate and embitter that real inequality" which the French revolutionaries (and Mr Obama) "never can remove".
But that would help Barack Obama, embitter a mainstream party on which he has at last made a big impact and damage his like-minded ophthalmologist son, Rand, now a Republican senator.As Mr Gingrich has learned, rising poll numbers bring extra scrutiny.
"Facebook played a major role in my situation," she claimed and added the network "helped embitter people against me".
The poor indeed are insensible of many little vexations which sometimes embitter the possessions and pollute the enjoyments of the rich.
Hopes to head own opera company in N.Y.C. Has never forgiven N.Y. for permitting failure to embitter last years of old operatic trail-blazer, Oscar Hammerstein.
An FI senator, Manuela Repetti, praised "a wise choice" she said would help to "de-embitter" the political climate.
That meant, in political terms, aligning it more closely to the mainstream of Irish nationalism, which had been disgusted by the IRA's violence and which hankered for ideas of Irish identity that were positive and open rather than embittered and embattled.
Families were carers, you had fatherless families, you had degrees of domestic violence associated with post traumatic stress, you had the pro-conscriptionists and the anti-conscriptionists still deeply embittered and polarised – the shirkers versus those who served.
Policing remains a touchstone issue for nationalists who were embittered by the former Northern Ireland secretary Peter Mandelson's policing legislation, believing it neutered the drive to try to make the 90% Protestant RUC more acceptable to the Catholic community.
She became embittered and persuaded herself that it had all been treachery and some kind of plot, which was paranoid nonsense.
