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make discontented
verb as in weary
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Dissatisfy, dis-sat′is-fī, v.t. not to satisfy: to make discontented: to displease.—adj.
Disaffect, dis-af-fekt′, v.t. to take away the affection of: to make discontented or unfriendly.—pa.p. and adj.
It is years since I have observed that the principled groan a good deal and make discontented criticisms of life, and I don't think I care to be one of them.
He shuddered again at the likelihood that Mechanics' Institutes would "make discontented spirits and insubordinate and presumptuous workmen."
Papers like the "Fiery Cross," even though such a man as Westlake edit them, serve the cause of hatred; they preach, by implication at all events, the childish theory of the equality of men, and seek to make discontented a whole class which only needs regular employment on the old conditions to be perfectly satisfied.'
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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