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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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
Zichen Wang, semafor.com, 16 June 2025
Also, beloved lead charge nurse Dana is still dealing with having been assaulted by a disgruntled patient.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 June 2025
The most memorable scene in Fitzgerald’s novel involves Stahr spinning, for a disgruntled British playwright named Boxley, a meaningless scenario.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
As a result, there is a large portion of the team’s fanbase that remains disgruntled at ownership for moving to Sin City instead of continuing to play in Oakland.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2025
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Adjective
Notable YouTube propaganda cuts both ways: In May, the CIA released some Mandarin-language videos aimed at recruiting disgruntled Chinese state officials as spies.
—Zichen Wang, semafor.com, 16 June 2025
Also, beloved lead charge nurse Dana is still dealing with having been assaulted by a disgruntled patient.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 June 2025
The most memorable scene in Fitzgerald’s novel involves Stahr spinning, for a disgruntled British playwright named Boxley, a meaningless scenario.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
As a result, there is a large portion of the team’s fanbase that remains disgruntled at ownership for moving to Sin City instead of continuing to play in Oakland.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disgruntled
Adjective
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And Counsell isn’t dissatisfied with Hoerner’s body of work in 2025.—
Jeff Vorva,
Chicago Tribune,
17 June 2025
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Why Inaction Could Be The Biggest Risk Of All While a large portion of banks from the ABA survey are dissatisfied, most aren’t ready to make the leap to something new.—
Rodrigo Silva,
Forbes.com,
16 June 2025
Adjective
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American presidents have typically refrained from using it publicly, even when angry or frustrated.—
Tamara Keith,
NPR,
24 June 2025
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But both China and the United States are growing frustrated with this hedging.—
Yuen Foong Khong,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
Verb
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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
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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 3 Jul. 2025.
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