disgruntlement

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Noun
  • New polling from The Economist/YouGov shows a drop in the president's approval among those earning over $100,000—a shift that appears tied to economic unease and growing dissatisfaction with his policy agenda.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 July 2025
  • Decanting can be a valuable tool when there’s a major change in the law or the beneficiary’s circumstances, or there’s dissatisfaction with the trustee.
    Bob Carlson, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • Public discontent with White — a former Kansas City Royals player and Democrat serving as the county executive since 2016 — stemmed mainly from frustration over increases in Jackson County property tax evaluations in recent years, organizers have said.
    Madeline King, Kansas City Star, 18 July 2025
  • Congressional Republicans, who had experienced an unwelcome taste of popular discontent at their own formerly placid town halls, were now under orders from party headquarters to avoid such encounters.
    Andrew Cockburn, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • Severino has already expressed his displeasure with pitching at the Athletics' temporary home ballpark in Sacramento and was likely to be moved before this report.
    Hunter Mulholland, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 July 2025
  • Is manager Will Venable capable of showing displeasure over the team’s losing?
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • The animated voyage, with its themes of alienation and aliens, arrives at a time when immigrants in this country, and Latinos at large, have become the target of brutal ICE raids that ignore due process and racially profile citizens and undocumented people alike.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025
  • These were stories about fear as metaphor: adolescence, alienation, the fragile armor of identity.
    JP Mangalindan, Time, 19 June 2025
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“Disgruntlement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disgruntlement. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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