make sb bitter
Frequency: 7.219.0 per million words
to cause someone to become an angry and unhappy person.
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- The constant betrayals made him bitter.
- Years of disappointment have made her bitter and cynical.
- Losing the championship like that would make anyone bitter.
- The injustice of the system makes many people bitter.
- Being passed over for promotion repeatedly made him bitter towards his colleagues.
- Don't let one bad experience make you bitter.
- Did the failure of his business make him bitter?
- The experience of war was so traumatic that it made the old soldier bitter for the rest of his life.
- This ongoing conflict is making the whole community bitter.
- He tried not to let the unfair criticism make him bitter.