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as in dissatisfaction
the condition of being dissatisfied with one's life or situation
a survey showing the extent of people's satisfaction—or disgruntlement—with their marriages
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as in estrangement
the loss of friendship or affection
feelings of neglect that inevitably lead to disgruntlement among employees
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Recent Examples of disgruntlement
Across TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram, African Americans used the Annabelle doll to voice their disgruntlement with the southern plantation tourist industry in jest.
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Essence, 29 Oct. 2025
What is really remarkable is how real-life events, such as the Mangione incident, collided with the making of this movie (shot in only 19 days), and the disgruntlement of common people who feel they are being ripped off by billionaires and corporations.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
Beyond the disgruntlement common to locales everywhere when big developers arrive, Barbuda’s idiosyncratic customs around private property posed a more serious threat and enabled what activists describe as a land grab.
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2025
Essence, 29 Oct. 2025
What is really remarkable is how real-life events, such as the Mangione incident, collided with the making of this movie (shot in only 19 days), and the disgruntlement of common people who feel they are being ripped off by billionaires and corporations.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
Beyond the disgruntlement common to locales everywhere when big developers arrive, Barbuda’s idiosyncratic customs around private property posed a more serious threat and enabled what activists describe as a land grab.
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disgruntlement
Noun
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Advertisement Soon after that initial protest, dissatisfaction spread and the country entered a long downward spiral.—
Shahrnush Parsipur,
Time,
3 Feb. 2026
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Meanwhile, Fed Governor Christopher Waller, one of two dissenting voices at this week's Federal Open Market Committee meeting, has expressed dissatisfaction with keeping lending policy unchanged, saying weakness in the labor market requires more rate cuts.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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After decades of estrangement between him and Hutton, the two reconciled last year.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
3 Feb. 2026
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Farnum said that Negron and Hutton reconciled last year after decades of estrangement.—
Mikael Wood,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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Before the White House could even respond there were protests on the ground, demands for accountability, calls to abolish ICE and palpable discontent from across the political spectrum.—
Jamelle Bouie,
Mercury News,
29 Jan. 2026
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Saturn leaving Pisces on February 13 lifts the heavy blanket of sorrow and exhaustion that’s been dampening your life force for the last three years, freeing you to unthaw a bit from the winter of your discontent.—
Steph Koyfman,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 Jan. 2026
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The site leaned into the idea that the excellence of American institutions had been corroded by wokeism, publishing columns and first-person accounts about parents’ disaffection with progressive private-school education and Hollywood’s discrimination against conservatives.—
Clare Malone,
New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2026
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This confusion lay in the speech’s weaving, wending contradictions, and its shifts between tones, something Foster purposefully aimed for in telling the story of her life from child stardom to adult disaffection.—
Daniel D'Addario,
Variety,
7 Jan. 2026
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Tim Fitzgerald, the publisher of GoPowercat, expressed his displeasure in an X post.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
26 Jan. 2026
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Highlighting her work to improve the MBTA, Healey complimented current Transportation Secretary Phillip Eng, who used to be a leader of New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), seemingly acknowledging displeasure with his predecessor.—
Tim Dunn,
Boston Herald,
25 Jan. 2026
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Michael Steckling is suing Poleg for alienation of affection and is seeking at least $5 million in damages.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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The memoir turns instead into a broad and essentially familiar discourse about ambition as a route out of challenging family circumstances; the pursuit of conventional success leading to alienation; the frequent clash between career and parenthood.—
Lily Meyer,
The Atlantic,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Disgruntlement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disgruntlement. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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