The embitterment that resulted from the loss of his job never left him. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : Failure has embittered him. From Dictionary.com.
Idealism may be the luxury of youth, but I’d say rancor and embitterment is the wage of age. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Let The Cameras Roll] Reference
Year by year, embitterment crept between the factions. From Wordnik.com. [Time Patrolman]
The causes of his embitterment were many, remote and near. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] Reference
The current front-runner is "posttraumatic embitterment disorder.". From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
Symptoms include embitterment, feelings of injustice, and helplessness. From Wordnik.com. [Crazy Like Us] Reference
Yeah, this battle against embitterment is leaving me, strangely, bitter. From Wordnik.com. [Grace In Small Things: Part 60 of 365] Reference
Wage a battle against embitterment and take part in Grace in Small Things. From Wordnik.com. [Grace In Small Things: Part 112 of 365] Reference
Loyal pals stopped coming, causing real hard feelings of betrayal and embitterment. From Wordnik.com. [Reading Bourdain] Reference
But Diamond admitted the importance of not overpathologizing symptoms of embitterment. From Wordnik.com. [Big Think - Classifying Bitterness Embitters Psychologists] Reference
Wage a battle against embitterment and take part in 365 days of Grace in Small Things. From Wordnik.com. [Grace In Small Things: Part 22 of 365] Reference
Their growing isolation and embitterment will deprive the nation of a valuable human resource. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Staying True to Their Faith and Their Country] Reference
Simultaneously, I have heard reports of embitterment towards those Afghans who fled and who are now returning. From Wordnik.com. [Khaled Hosseini - An interview with author] Reference
There are reasons enough—though not what the commander may think—for the embitterment that people will notice in you. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories] Reference
These past few years, however, the two countries appear to have realized how much they have to lose from mutual embitterment. From Wordnik.com. [Hu Visit Signals Efforts by] Reference
The old unhappy loss or want of something had, I am conscious, some place in my heart; but not to the embitterment of my life. From Wordnik.com. [David Copperfield] Reference
This has made them filled with extreme anger and embitterment. From Wordnik.com. [TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News] Reference
Wage a battle against embitterment and take part in 365 days of. From Wordnik.com. [whoorl] Reference
But, underlying this, there was a deal of personal embitterment. From Wordnik.com. [Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography] Reference
I. and Cromwell produced a terrible embitterment of the struggle. From Wordnik.com. [Home Rule Second Edition] Reference
On the way home he continued to murmur murmurs of embitterment to himself. From Wordnik.com. [Gänsemännchen. English] Reference
Because of hydrogen embitterment issues, this coating is not yet recommended for high-strength steels. From Wordnik.com. [Engineering Hardware-Software] Reference
He was in a state of disgust and embitterment quite new in the history of their relation to each other. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Deronda] Reference
He was very much excited; his two companions were trying to appease his embitterment against Andreas Döderlein. From Wordnik.com. [Gänsemännchen. English] Reference
An emotion such as this he had never known; for the first time in his life he was humiliated without embitterment. From Wordnik.com. [Born in Exile] Reference
The embitterment caused by the Egyptian question lasted throughout the period, and was not healed till the Entente of 1904. From Wordnik.com. [The Expansion of Europe] Reference
Poverty and frequent unemploymentbegan to play havoc with people, leaving behind them a memory of discontentand embitterment. From Wordnik.com. [Mein Kampf]
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