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disgruntling

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verb

present participle of disgruntle

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for disgruntling
Adjective
  • The one-time MVP has continued to build on the strong second half of an otherwise disappointing 2024.
    Tim Britton, New York Times, 16 May 2025
  • The clothing retailer pulled its outlook for the year after posting disappointing preliminary first-quarter results .
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 14 May 2025
Verb
  • The prequel will introduce his family and girlfriend and the events that led up to his victory, notorious for angering the Capitol elite.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Reports suggest that some Republican lawmakers are frustrated with Musk’s bluster and that the DOGE approach to slashing the federal bureaucracy is angering constituents and making lawmakers less popular in their districts.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • But in the interest of not completely alienating customers with incessant, irrelevant, or personally offensive ads, the social media company is giving users the ability to block advertisers for a year.
    Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2025
  • No filmmaker was better-equipped to capture the institutional failures of our economic collapse in 2007-08, as Soderbergh has always been pre-occupied by the alienating relationship between our economic systems and his characters.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Gomez gestured across the street toward 100 Centre Street—the criminal courthouse, a cheerless Art Deco building the color of cinder blocks.
    Sarah Lustbader, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Gomez gestured across the street toward 100 Centre Street—the criminal courthouse, a cheerless Art Deco building the color of cinder blocks.
    Sarah Lustbader, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Instead, Chernow devotes a hefty portion of his 1,039 pages (excluding notes) to Twain’s personal tribulations, a depressing series of bungles and calamities starting in the author’s middle age.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 May 2025
  • Based on the memoir of a real doctor, the stories and tribulations feel achingly real, and Whishaw's sly smile and tongue-in-cheek delivery keeps the depressing stories from becoming too morose.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 8 May 2025
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“Disgruntling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disgruntling. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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