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Malcontent

noun

A person who is discontented or disgusted.

adjective

(Written also malecontent)

Discontented as toward authority. Synonyms: disaffected, ill-affected, rebellious.

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"Malcontent" Quotes from Famous Books

... mate returned on board, he did not fail to tell the captain what the men had said. "We must nevertheless keep a watchful eye on the boatswain and others who associated with him," was the answer. "If Hulk, however, was the chief malcontent, we have little ...

— The South Sea Whaler • W.H.G. Kingston

... all deserting. The first I caught was sidling through the postern Close by the Cave of Pan: the next hoisting herself With rope and pulley down: a third on the point Of slipping past: while a fourth malcontent, seated For instant flight to visit Orsilochus On bird-back, I dragged off by the hair in time.... They are all snatching excuses to sneak home. Look, there goes ...

— Lysistrata • Aristophanes

... on while the mate called that troublesome malcontent down from aloft, where he had reported the paral seizing of the fore royal yard adrift without saying sir to Mr. Parker. I watched tranquilly, while the big, whiskered first mate, meeting the man as he dropped from the fore-rigging ...

— The Grain Ship • Morgan Robertson

... to his feet. How inappropriate that she should be out! He had realized at last what he wanted—to kiss her again, to find rest in her great immobility. She was the end of all restlessness, all malcontent. ...

— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald

... very courageous of him.' I believe these were a couple of angels sent to give me heart again. It was truly fortifying to reproduce all the old man's insinuations, as if they were original to me in my character of a malcontent footman, and have them brushed away like so many flies by these admirable ...

— An Inland Voyage • Robert Louis Stevenson

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