discontent

A majority no-confidence vote would be a largely symbolic gesture, signalling the broader faculty's discontent and applying pressure on university leadership to act.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

But while no one within his party has openly challenged Merz for the top job, murmurings of discontent have grown louder.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

But the discontent gained louder political voice in the years after 9/11.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

But maybe, just maybe, Marvel fans are feeling a nagging sense of discontent, too.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

It was the holy hymn taken from the bone and sinew of the family’s life together, the anthem of both their discontent and strange belabored love for their way of life.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Always at the heart of these discontents was the battery—or batteries, because there has been a succession of them, an alchemist’s closet of energy-storing potions in weirdly shaped bottles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

I mean the movies that reveal something to us about the highs and lows, the glories and discontents, and above all something ineffable about love itself, transcending just romance.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2024

Modern Library’s editorial board ranked “Brave New World,” the 1932 novel about the discontents of a technologically-advanced future society, as the fifth most important novel of the 20th century.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2023

There was a lot of roiling discontents in Harry.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2022

But men must work on, and Wang Lung worked as he had before, although the lengthening warm days and the sunshine and sudden rains filled everyone with longings and discontents.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck