discontented
Example Sentences
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But from the Russians, apart from some discontented mutterings about European involvement and unauthorised leaks, the response has been somewhat muted.
From BBC • Nov. 26, 2025
“No wonder that this results in an unhappy and discontented worker,” he wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
All that lucre couldn’t override the prevailing sentiment among discontented voters who were ready, after nearly eight years of the uber-outsider Arnold Schwarzenegger, to embrace the tried-and-true experience of the reemergent Jerry Brown.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025
To the discontented rumors are feed, Mysaria tells her queen, advising her to let others do what she can’t.
From Salon • Jul. 18, 2024
“You ain give him a chance to say nothin,” observed one of the discontented women holding the sheet.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.