embittering

English

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Adjective

embittering (comparative more embittering, superlative most embittering)

  1. Causing one to feel embittered.
    • 2011, David Evanier, All the Things You Are: The Life of Tony Bennett:
      It was a very embittering experience, the climax to what had been for Tony anger and rage with the military way of doing things.
    • 2012, Joel J. Kupperman, Theories of Human Nature and Human Nature, page 209:
      The more openly this despotism proclaims gain to be its end and aim, the more petty, the more hateful, the more embittering it is.
    • 2013, Alison Stewart, Melissa Harris-Perry, First Class, page 101:
      It was a very embittering moment, just a few years before, he was the star to the faculty, and now they wouldn't hire him because he was black.

Derived terms

Verb

embittering

  1. present participle and gerund of embitter

Noun

embittering (plural embitterings)

  1. embitterment
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