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embittering en · ADJ

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  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:
    • 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:
    • 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:

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most embittering Degree=Sup lexicographic
more embittering Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

embitteringly

embittering en · NOUN

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  1. embitterment

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embitterings Number=Plur lexicographic

embittering en · VERB

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  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of embitter
    form of embitter