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discontented

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verb

past tense of discontent

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Recent Examples of discontented
Adjective
The study also found something interesting: Happy workers do not work more hours than their discontented colleagues. Evan Edwards, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024 And yet Kidman has been more visible than ever in 2024, making a five-course meal out of what can be described only as variations on the theme of the discontented matriarch. Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024 The toppling of Hasina is a historic moment, further evidence that even the most implacable ruler can stave off a discontented people for only so long. Ali Riaz, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2024 The line is from Goethe’s Faust, the story of a discontented intellectual who sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for unlimited pleasure. Joey Sims, Vulture, 10 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for discontented
Recent Examples of Synonyms for discontented
Adjective
  • That isn’t the only poll showing Americans are dissatisfied with their finances under Trump.
    Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The result is ‘inclusion’ efforts that leave everyone feeling dissatisfied and aggrieved.
    Ian Kingsbury, National Review, 22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Plus, a partial outage affecting some network repeaters is causing more problems: the card reader only works intermittently, and that leads to endless lines of frustrated customers.
    Katie Primm, NBC news, 9 May 2025
  • As the impasse dragged on, frustrated townspeople took matters into their own hands, literally locking the indecisive cardinals inside the meeting hall and even removing the roof to speed the process.
    Barney Henderson, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
Verb
  • Not seeing his name on the list should have annoyed him.
    Stuart James, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
  • While typically a crowd at a concert might have been annoyed that the performer stopped the show to have a chat with a fan, the audience couldn’t have been more supportive and receptive.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2025

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“Discontented.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discontented. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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