embittering

comparative more embittering · superlative most embittering

1. Causing one to feel embittered.

   It was a very embittering experience, the climax to what had been for Tony anger and rage with the military way of doing things.

   2011, David Evanier, All the Things You Are: The Life of Tony Bennett

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   The more openly this despotism proclaims gain to be its end and aim, the more petty, the more hateful, the more embittering it is.

   2012, Joel J. Kupperman, Theories of Human Nature and Human Nature, page 209

   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.

   2013, Alison Stewart, Melissa Harris-Perry, First Class, page 101

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of embitter

plural embitterings

1. embitterment