embitter

To enforce obedience, the most harsh and unjust means were employed, which could not but embitter the people.

It must be admitted that his respectable Eminence the Cardinal had enough to provoke and embitter him with his relatives.

These things alone would have had a tendency to embitter his heart and to make him rail at the so-called justice of the land.

I may add that no nation can afford to embitter its own writers against itself by producing in their minds a sense of injustice.