discontent

The high cost of living is a big factor for people's discontent, as residents feel supermarket and petrol prices are impossibly high for working families.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

The 13% slide was driven by discontent with the Google parent’s quarterly results.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Countries across Europe are grappling with a wave of rising discontent over the cost of living, with weeks of protests breaking out across France this month.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

Democrats lead polls in the final stretch before the midterms; riots in France reflect enormous economic and political discontent; and DOJ lawyers spar with judge over Trump’s plans for public golf course in D.C.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026

Nevertheless, the Populist movement initially enjoyed remarkable success in the South, fueled by a wave of discontent aroused by the severe agrarian depression of the 1880s and 1890s.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

There was a lot of roiling discontents in Harry.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2022

Like “Last Winter, We Parted,” “My Annihilation” is an examination of selfhood — or of selfhood’s discontents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 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