as in dissatisfied
having a feeling that one has been wronged or thwarted in one's ambitions
a disgruntled postal worker was responsible for the vandalism
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1
as in infuriated
to cause to change from friendly or loving to unfriendly or uncaring
an employee, disgruntled by the restaurant owner's shabby treatment, turned him in to the IRS
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as in displeased
to make discontented
a crew disgruntled by a long voyage that provided no opportunity for recreation onshore
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Recent Examples of disgruntled
Jonathan P. Stewart, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2025
This time, the New York Times — and all other Fake News that repeat their garbage — are enthusiastically taking the grievances of disgruntled former employees as the sole sources for their article.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
Nothing new with Alexander Gutekunst has been trying to trade disgruntled cornerback Jaire Alexander rather than release him.
—Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
And anonymous smears from disgruntled former employees on old news doesn’t matter.
—Brett Samuels, The Hill, 21 Apr. 2025
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Adjective
That peaked in 1881 with President James Garfield’s assassination by Charles Guiteau, a disgruntled supporter who had been denied a government appointment.
—Jonathan P. Stewart, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2025
This time, the New York Times — and all other Fake News that repeat their garbage — are enthusiastically taking the grievances of disgruntled former employees as the sole sources for their article.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
Nothing new with Alexander Gutekunst has been trying to trade disgruntled cornerback Jaire Alexander rather than release him.
—Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
And anonymous smears from disgruntled former employees on old news doesn’t matter.
—Brett Samuels, The Hill, 21 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disgruntled
Adjective
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That isn’t the only poll showing Americans are dissatisfied with their finances under Trump.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
24 Apr. 2025
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The result is ‘inclusion’ efforts that leave everyone feeling dissatisfied and aggrieved.—
Ian Kingsbury,
National Review,
22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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
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Madrid were angered by a decision in that game to award Espanyol defender Carlos Romero a yellow card for a 60th-minute challenge on Kylian Mbappe, which was not upgraded to a red card by VAR.—
Guillermo Rai,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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That meeting angered Israeli officials, and reportedly Dermer in particular.—
Alex Marquardt,
CNN Money,
10 Apr. 2025
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Not seeing his name on the list should have annoyed him.—
Stuart James,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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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
Verb
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The sketch opened with Mikey Day as Jesus, recreating the scene from the Bible in which Christ visits the temple and gets enraged at seeing money changers transacting business within its walls.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
13 Apr. 2025
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While there, Jesus visited the temple and enraged upon seeing money changers transacting business within its sacred walls, expelled them all.—
McKinley Franklin,
HollywoodReporter,
12 Apr. 2025
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The policy outraged customers as going-out-of-business sales continue and some argued there was little notice to redeem their store value.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA TODAY,
21 Mar. 2025
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The move caught White House officials off guard and outraged some supporters of the president, who had been promised that more details would be made public.—
Katherine Faulders,
ABC News,
20 Mar. 2025
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And while Twitter long struggled to turn its influence into a profitable business, the company’s value is more questionable now than ever after Musk’s controversial policies alienated advertisers.—
Clare Duffy,
CNN,
15 Mar. 2025
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Others, however, argue there were plenty of errors made on the campaign trail, from refusing to distance herself from Biden or touting an endorsement from former GOP Representative Liz Cheney, which critics say alienated key Democratic constituencies.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
Newsweek,
13 Mar. 2025
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“Disgruntled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disgruntled. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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