How to Use malcontent in a Sentence

malcontent

noun

• He complained so much that he got a reputation for being a malcontent.
• But Brown was a malcontent who rarely started during two years with the Raiders.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2021
• Deadpool and his foul-mouthed crew of misfits and malcontents have taken down the Avengers.
  — Fox News, 20 May 2018
• The case has gripped Belgium and posed wider questions about how the country deals with malcontent in its armed forces.
  — NBC News, 24 May 2021
• By night, the pampered Midge turns into a malcontent, seething against the confines of her fairy-tale life.
  — Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2018
• His hold will be weak, given a single malcontent can call for his removal—and be guaranteed a vote on it.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 5 Jan. 2023
• Rondo and Cousins have been viewed as malcontents at various times in their careers.
  — Ron Higgins, NOLA.com, 9 May 2018
• Never mind the man himself, who, anyway, emerges as something of a whiner and malcontent.
  — Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 31 Oct. 2025
• The most acute concern is his late father, Bert Goldberg, who was a wall of rage and malcontent.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
• Elsewhere, Loskutoff names the grievances of his malcontents.
  — Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 21 May 2018
• Wiseman was training us early on to seek solidarity, yes, but also to own our malcontent, and cut out its roots.
  — Bridget Read, Vogue, 23 Apr. 2018
• The Stranger Things malcontents might observe that the show tends to do the same thing over and over again and that the formula is getting stale.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 4 July 2019
• Eventually, the three were identified as malcontents who hoped to launch a war against the law, then hide out in the rugged desert and canyons west of Cortez.
  — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2017
• The current dour mood emboldens executives to get rid of everyone who is deemed to be a low-performer or malcontent.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• As usual, Koepka, golf’s all-world malcontent, used the right words to take aim at the wrong target, blaming the media rather than the storm itself.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2022
• But those jabs were misguided, spun by malcontents to stoke anger against an iniquitous regime the queen neither created nor controlled.
  — Jeffrey Westbrook. Styled By Will Kahn, Town & Country, 22 Aug. 2019
• Whiteside brings to Portland a reputation for being a malcontent who, at times, has been more focused on himself than his team.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive.com, 11 July 2019
• Turns out the measurement on speculating when Irving would begin his moody malcontent routine should not have been in years, or even months.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2019
• As a malcontent, Saul tends toward a policy of not so much getting mad about anything in particular as of getting even across the board.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2020
• Once again, a small group of far-right malcontents had succeeded, if nothing else, in fomenting conflict and enlisting state power in that effort.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 4 Sep. 2019
• Thomas was one of the malcontents Belichick cleaned out after the 2009 season ended in a wild-card round rout by the Ravens.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2020
• In other words, malcontent and volatile populist energy is not a new feature of American politics.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 14 Aug. 2020
• These messages attract restless and bored young Muslims, some of whom are misguided idealists but many of whom are criminals or malcontents.
  — Daniel Byman, Slate Magazine, 23 May 2017
• Does Milwaukee remember Yount as an enigma or even a malcontent, instead of the most beloved athlete in the city's history?
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2020
• Pencil the former Vikings, Texans, and Bills malcontent in for 48 yards and no TDs.
  — Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2026
• There is less interest these days in the existential trials of the uprooted; attention has shifted to those malcontents who, we are told, have become strangers in their own land.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 6 June 2019
• Get our daily newsletter Sebastián Piñera, Chile’s centre-right president, at first took a tough line with the malcontents.
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
• Advertisement Massie has earned a reputation as a House malcontent.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
• Paddy wagons will be filled with Hawaiian shirt-wearing malcontents as the Jazz Fest breaks all previous attendance records.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 1 May 2018
• But the fluctuations in messaging often triggered doubt and malcontent among other members of the community.
  — Dominique Mosbergen, Time, 18 Nov. 2025