discontent

IPA: dɪskʌntˈɛnt

noun

  • (uncountable) Dissatisfaction.
  • (uncountable) A longing for better times or circumstances.
  • (countable) A discontented person; a malcontent.

verb

  • To deprive of contentment; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy.

adjective

  • Not content; discontented; dissatisfied.
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Examples of "discontent" in Sentences

  • A new inwardness, a discontent, is seeping across the country.
  • I know that this discontent is the basic trait that turns a person into a writer.
  • As I point out in the piece, simmering discontent is a fact of Anglican existence.
  • The nerve centre of this discontent is the steam room, itself a source of perennial complaints.
  • Mr. Miller attributes his voter appeal to what he calls discontent over expansion of the federal government.
  • At the root of the discontent is the desire to have practical, not ideological, solutions to intractable problems.
  • The soul cannot be mocked, and your discontent is your soul telling you that there is something else that you need to look for or find.
  • (Stuttgart 227), these rotary wholes are both the production of new forms in "discontent," and the rotation around their own foundations that perpetually unworks these wholes by returning them to the annular drive in which they have their origin.

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