embitter - use in sentences

Object

  • relation: It also embittered relations between the classes in France.
  • man: He is an embittered old man who doesn't like films anymore.
  • enemy: Embittered internal enemies accuse these self-declared hardline Stalinites of going soft on the Socialist Workers Party and Trotskyism.
  • journalist: More use than an embittered journalist is the correct answer.
  • population: US imperialism may have the whip hand militarily but its failing capitalist policies cannot reconcile an increasingly embittered Iraqi population.
  • teacher: Barry Ingham plays Terence Langley, the embittered music teacher: " Suspicion always remain like a shadow.

Subject

  • year: Only the saintly Bishop of Digne treats him kindly and Valjean, embittered by years of hardship, repays him by stealing some silver.
  • lack: Some senior air force officials remain embittered by the lack of credit they received for their achievements in Operation Desert Storm.

Preposition: by

  • year: Only the saintly Bishop of Digne treats him kindly and Valjean, embittered by years of hardship, repays him by stealing some silver.
  • lack: Some senior air force officials remain embittered by the lack of credit they received for their achievements in Operation Desert Storm.

Modifying Another Word

  • so: There are various theories as to what exactly makes this sort of Scot so embittered and joyless.
  • deeply: Additionally, Troubridge's journal provides evidence of a deeply embittered individual, which is the opposite of what Fryer suggests.
  • now: But I was now embittered, and more determined than ever to make my escape.
  • also: The public are also embittered by some of the proposals coming from the Acute Services review.
  • greatly: His charges greatly embittered the Boers, who were further aggrieved by the emancipation of the slaves.
  • increasingly: US imperialism may have the whip hand militarily but its failing capitalist policies cannot reconcile an increasingly embittered Iraqi population.

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