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Discontent   /dɪskəntˈɛnt/   Listen
noun
Discontent  n.  
1.
Want of content; uneasiness and inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction; disquiet. "Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York." "The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent."
2.
A discontented person; a malcontent. (R.) "Thus was the Scotch nation full of discontents."


adjective
Discontent  adj.  Not content; discontented; dissatisfied. "Passion seemed to be much discontent, but Patience was very quiet."


verb
Discontent  v. t.  (past & past part. discontented; pres. part. discontenting)  To deprive of content; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy.





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"Discontent" Quotes from Famous Books



... must have badly needed. Their behaviour all through this terrible day, sometimes under most trying circumstances, had been splendid, and it says a good deal for master as well as for man that not once was a sound of discontent heard. In fact, the men often suggested themselves little things in which they thought they might help the caretakers of the party. It was a relief to us all to know that the work of those peons had ended for ...
— Argentina From A British Point Of View • Various
... in England of Dr. Strachan, that sturdy ecclesiastic who was long the ruling spirit of the "Family Compact," emboldened the leaders of Reform to inveigh against the Hydra-headed abuses of the time, and sow broadcast the dragon-teeth of discontent and the seeds of ...
— An Algonquin Maiden - A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada • G. Mercer Adam
... food, clothes and shelter and we didn't. Lots of slave owners wouldn't allow dem on deir farms among deir slaves without orders from de overseer. I don't know why, unless he was afraid dey would stir up discontent among de niggers. Dere was lots of "underground railroading" and I rekon dat was what Old Master ...
— Slave Narratives, Oklahoma - A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From - Interviews with Former Slaves • Various
... the Wolfsberg, it seemed to me that I could distinguish a muttering as of voices full of hate, like men talking low on their beds the secret things of evil and treason. I discerned discontent and rebellion rumbling and brooding over the city that clear, keen ...
— Red Axe • Samuel Rutherford Crockett
... by an unforeseen calamity. On coming to Paris, his father had invested his savings in bonds upon the Hotel de Ville. The Government, impoverished by wars and extravagance, reduced the value of these revenues, with the result of creating discontent and calling forth expostulation from the disappointed annuitants. Some of them met together, and, among others, Étienne Pascal, and gave such vent to their feelings as to alarm the Government. Richelieu took summary means of asserting his authority ...
— Pascal • John Tulloch


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