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malcontents

noun

plural of malcontent
1
as in grumps

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as in discontents

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as in misanthropes

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for malcontents
  1. crabs
  2. radicals
  3. misanthropes
  4. extremists
  5. cynics
  6. anarchists
  7. naysayers
  8. detractors
Noun
  • Earlier this year, more than a hundred thousand bots joined a social network, Moltbook, and, within seventy-two hours, created a religion called Crustafarianism, which came to involve the worship of crabs.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Today, its mangroves buffer Odisha’s vulnerable coastline against frequent cyclones and provide breeding grounds for fish, prawns, and crabs that sustain thousands of fisher families.
    — Kalpana Sunder, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of crabs
Noun
  • Dohrn, who is the son of the longtime radicals Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers and who has taught for several years at Northwestern University, certainly has enjoyed a catbird’s seat on the culture wars of academia.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Hickey is the charismatic traveling salesman who preaches a distorted vision of salvation to the social misfits and leftist radicals in a dive bar in lower Manhattan, modeled on the denizens of a favorite O’Neill hangout.
    — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of radicals
Noun
  • The story follows a rag-tag group of misanthropes who attempt to rob jewels from the Vatican.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Clavicular is the poster child—though by no means the most extreme representative—of the looksmaxxing movement, the latest permutation of an ideology developed by too online misogynist misanthropes in the twenty-tens.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2026
Definition of misanthropes
Noun
  • Individuals within the party have also been accused of being extremists.
    — Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026
  • The caption on the video claims that a group of Muslim extremists kidnapped and beheaded a Christian man for refusing to convert to Islam.
    — Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of extremists
Noun
  • Williams led the Bears to an NFC North title and a playoff victory last season, but some cynics think the Bears are due for a regression this season.
    — Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • That the earnestness the genre requires galls us cynics, who love to hide in our books, away from all those pesky bodies in the first place?
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of cynics
Noun
  • There are groups of radical environmentalists and anarchists who embrace him, and Luigi Mangione gave the Unabomber Manifesto a four-star review on Goodreads.
    — Rachel Corbett, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Something common to the plans and schemes of crypto-anarchists is a certain Rube Goldberg fussiness.
    — Finn Brunton, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of anarchists
Noun
  • Neither song has stopped naysayers from characterizing Anthrax as left-wing.
    — Jon Wiederhorn, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The hiding of it is what allowed naysayers to get way more people killed.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of naysayers
Noun
  • Scott’s performance has received across-the-board raves, but even more so than The Debut, the film itself has both fans and detractors.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Local detractors of the partnership include leaders of other Belgian cultural institutions, like Dirk Snauwaert, director of the Wiels contemporary art center in Brussels.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of detractors
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“Malcontents.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malcontents. Accessed 30 Sep. 2026.

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