discontent
Example Sentences
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The vehicle for discontent to boil over today or this week – West's challenge – has gone.
From BBC • May 11, 2026
The sense of widespread malaise and discontent was crystallized by Victoria Bonya, an Instagram influencer and former Russian TV star who lives in Monaco, and who stayed away from politics until now.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
But the widespread internet outages, a slowing economy and rising prices have seen discontent trickle into the public domain in recent weeks.
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
Harron asserts that Solanas’ actions were not the result of a brief, blind rage, but of a chronic discontent — a state of mind that looks all the more familiar two decades later.
From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026
And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face.
From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing discontent
Power Prefix: dis-
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Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Of Mice and Men
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