malcontents

plural of malcontent

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for malcontents
Noun
  • Mudflats and tidal flats in Korea are home to a wide variety of clams, crabs, octopuses, and snails, which can be harvested.
    Sara Merican, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2025
  • It's also believed that crabs of this species survived after a meteorite struck Earth around 66 million years ago, the infamous event that led to the extinction of dinosaurs.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Power to the People is a portrait of John and Yoko as a young married couple splashing down in New York City, making friends with the local radicals and con men and boho scenesters.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Before our very eyes, left-wing radicals toppled his statues, vandalized his monuments, tarnished his character, and sought to exile him from our public spaces.
    Addy Bink, The Hill, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • On the other hand, skeptics and cynics tend to be insistent right now that the clean-up activity is not going to last very long.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Travis Kelce knows what the cynics might think of his relationship with Taylor Swift — two of the most famous people in America just happen to match up perfectly?
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • For too long in Kansas, the Republican Party has been dominated by extremists who see no room for moderation or bipartisanship, let alone unity or mutual respect.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2025
  • So what happens when extremists wear their clothes?
    Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • However, her longtime friend/vocal coach Stevie Mackey is shutting down any naysayers with a snippet of Lopez rehearsing a number from the musical, Kiss Of The Spider Woman.
    Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • While naysayers may argue Dalio is the boy who cried wolf, his caution has paid off in the past.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Tara could fall into that category, just like the Abbotsfield shooter and the trio of eco-anarchists who are deployed later in the episode.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Prosecutors said members of that group engaged in digital extremism with the explicit goal of dismantling societal order, much in the way the anarchists of the pre-internet era used to operate.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Despite all of these successes, however, inflation still has its detractors.
    Big Think, Big Think, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Rothenberger noted that Boston City Hall, another brutalist-style building with its own share of detractors, will soon be designated a Boston landmark.
    Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Worries are particularly high about companies in the artificial-intelligence industry, where pessimists see echoes of the 2000 dot-com bubble that imploded.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • For the pessimists, Coreweave is Lucent or Nortel.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
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“Malcontents.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malcontents. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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