uncontent

Example Sentences

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Still, she was not entirely uncontent: she must have had some perception that her performance merely as a notable bit of reportorial art—did not wholly lack style, even if her attire did.

From Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William by Tarkington, Booth

He showed, not as a happy creature of the flesh, but as a creature of the flesh made uncontent, divinely pierced by the sharp flame of the spirit.

From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May

There was a time for youth's fiery passions, its ecstatic uncontent, and there was also most assuredly a time when those fevers should cease.

From Daisy's Aunt by Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)

My first original sermon was on "Enoch and Columbus," and my second on "Content, discontent, and uncontent."

From An Autobiography by Spence, Catherine Helen

Some of these wagons passed still onward, uncontent.

From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Hough, Emerson