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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.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Discontent" Quotes from Famous Books



... have five hundred thousand men at his back, but they had come in by beggarly hundreds. There was even talk of an insurance bonus to attract them. Lassalle had exaggerated both the magnetism of his personality and the intelligence and discontent of the masses. His masterful imagination had made the outer world a mere reflection of his inner world. Even in those early days, when he was scarcely known, and that favorably rather than otherwise, he had imagined himself the pet aversion of the comfortable classes. ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... convictions, and as usual, tenacious in his friendship and confidence towards his favorites. Bragg, in President Davis' estimation at least, was vindicated, but at the expense of his subalterns, and was, therefore, retained in command in the face of overwhelming discontent among the Generals and the pressing demands of public opinion for his recall from the ...
— History of Kershaw's Brigade • D. Augustus Dickert
... Christmas was only a week distant, she was to have a tree, and the very next evening her mother had promised to take her down-town and show her the beautiful, lighted Christmas shops. She wondered, listening to that rumble of discontent below, why grown-up men and women ever fretted when they were at liberty to go down-town every evening when they chose and look at the lighted shops, for she could still picture pure delight for ...
— The Portion of Labor • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... abruptly. She would not change mothers. No, no, she would be loyal, even in thought, to the pale, tired woman, whom she could remember kissing her passionately in the twilight, while bitter tears rained on her childish, upturned face. She would not let the demon of discontent spoil her visit. She would put by and forget while she enjoyed this wonderful slice of pleasure that had come to her. There was just as much greed in her wanting happiness wholesale as in Lemuel's crying for the ...
— A Princess in Calico • Edith Ferguson Black
... men faced each other savagely, like characters symbolizing forces in a play; complaisance and discontent. Behind Grant was the unrest and upheaval of a class coming into consciousness and tremendously dynamic, while Van Dorn stood for those who had won their fight and were static and self-satisfied. He twirled his mustache. ...
— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White


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