uncontent

Example Sentences

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Over all the landscape there is a look of plaintive uncontent.

From Nancy by Broughton, Rhoda

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

From An Autobiography by Spence, Catherine Helen

But the heart of the farmer was full of the old uncontent, the old longing after the heart of his boy, that had never learned to cry "Father!"

From Salted with Fire by MacDonald, George

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

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)