disgruntled

adjective

dis·​grun·​tled dis-ˈgrən-tᵊld How to pronounce disgruntled (audio)
: unhappy and annoyed
a disgruntled employee
She led her sodden and disgruntled team back into the changing rooms, insisting that the practice had not been a waste of time, though without any real conviction in her voice.J. K. Rowling
… a $300,000 refund pool for disgruntled former customers …Kevin McGurk
The crowd was up as well, and just as disgruntled as it had been the night before.Christopher Cooper & Robert Block

Examples of disgruntled in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Gone were the days of trade rumors and disgruntled players, the fans were focused on pizza parties and win streaks for a new young core, centered around their franchise player Scottie Barnes. Esfandiar Baraheni, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024 That amount is roughly in line with the previous fiscal year and is what former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., negotiated with the White House last year before eight disgruntled Republican lawmakers joined with Democrats a few months later and voted to oust him from the position. Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 1 Mar. 2024 In early 2023, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Ticketmaster, Live Nation and the United States ticketing market after colossal demand for Swift’s Eras tour resulted in a Ticketmaster meltdown — spurring a class action lawsuit filed by disgruntled Swifties against Ticketmaster. Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024 The Nets have the trade assets to make a competitive offer for a disgruntled star. Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2024 An entire musical number (set as a dream in her Bronx hometown) features Lopez ballading alongside the child actor playing her disgruntled, distressingly unwashed younger self, both of them passionately mouthing the lyrics to the unremarkable title song. Wesley Morris, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024 And so Stewart, 61, the disgruntled voice of outrage and humor, found a way back to his trusty soapbox. USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024 Plans to curb nitrogen pollution in the Netherlands led to paralyzing protests before disgruntled farmers helped far-right Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders deliver a surprise election victory last year. Nayla Razzouk, Fortune Europe, 13 Feb. 2024 Wright attributed the forgeries to various external factors, including errors by former solicitors, sabotage by disgruntled employees, hacking by malicious actors, and even unspecified anomalies within the IT environment that could have altered documents autonomously. Susie Violet Ward, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024

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Word History

Etymology

from past participle of disgruntle

First Known Use

1830, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of disgruntled was in 1830

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“Disgruntled.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disgruntled. Accessed 18 Mar. 2024.

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