(v. t.) To deprive of content; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy.
(n.) Want of content; uneasiness and inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction; disquiet.
(n.) A discontented person; a malcontent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Likewise, Merkel's Germany seems to be replicating the same erroneous policy as that of 1930, when a devotion to fiscal orthodoxy plunged the Weimar Republic into mass discontent that fuelled the flames of National Socialism.
(2) In the UK the twin threat of Ukip and the BNP tap into similar veins of discontent as their counterparts across the English channel.
(3) A foretaste of discontent came when Florian Thauvin, the underachieving £13m winger signed from Marseille last summer , was serenaded with chants of ‘You’re not fit to wear the shirt” from away fans during Saturday’s FA Cup defeat at Watford .
(4) Vladimir Putin brushed off complaints of election fixing during his annual televised live chat with the nation on Thursday , but behind the scenes his lieutenants are anxiously plotting how to quell rising discontent.
(5) His speech at the United Nations has been seen as a move to placate growing discontents in Palestinian society.
(6) During a time of ongoing industrial action in response to a continuing position of contractual imposition, there is obvious and significant discontent amongst the junior doctor workforce.” Junior doctors are only willing to support the review after the current industrial dispute is resolved, the statement ends.
(7) The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest organised political movement, added its voice to the chorus of discontent, accusing Scaf of contradicting 'all human, religious and patriotic values' with their callousness and warning that the revolution that overthrew former president Hosni Mubarak earlier this year was able to rise again.
(8) As public sector workers prepare for the biggest strike since the Winter of Discontent in 1979, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that workers in the worst paid jobs – such as dinner ladies, hairdressers and waiters – have seen their pay fall sharply in real terms, fanning fears about families' ability to cope with soaring food and energy bills.
(9) These projects served the broader purpose of European integration, but they overlooked critical flaws in the architecture of monetary union that need to be decisively addressed so that the euro fulfils its promise of economic prosperity and prevents Europe from slipping even more into division and discontent.
(10) Then, in English, a simple statement that has come to define a Japanese summer of public discontent, the likes of which it has not seen in a generation: “This is what democracy looks like!” Amid the trade union and civic group banners were colourful, bilingual placards held aloft by a new generation of activists who have assumed the mantle of mass protest as Japan braces for the biggest shift in its defence posture for 70 years.
(11) Sceptics think Prokhorov will be one of half a dozen "approved" candidates used to soak up discontent with his soothing talk of inexorable change, while posing no real threat to Putin's supremacy.
(12) Tony Abbott has tried to stem the tide of discontent within his own party ranks, defending his decision to award a knighthood to Prince Philip and saying the government is “strong and effective” under his leadership.
(13) Last month, public discontent spilled over for the first time when Putin was booed during an appearance at a martial arts fight , an event described by analysts as a watershed moment in his rule.
(14) Discontent with the monarchy is no longer confined to avowedly republican parties or rightwingers, who have never forgiven the king for introducing democracy and transforming the state handed to him by dictator General Francisco Franco on his death in 1975, when Spain's historically fragile monarchy was restored for the second time in a century.
(15) Now it struggles with a slowing economy, insecurity and domestic discontent – whose effects might be seen in the upcoming elections.
(16) "All kinds of social conflicts have constantly accumulated, and feelings of discontent have consistently risen," it warns.
(17) Rumblings of discontent had been circulating for months with the two clashing over player recruitment following a summer of inexplicable inactivity at Bloomfield Road , and the point of no return appeared to be reached when then-Burton boss Gary Rowett was openly offered the job in September.
(18) A white woman held a sign reading: “Arrest Darren Wilson.” An African American man nearby held another, expressing discontent that Wilson was not detained: “If I killed a man I wouldn’t be on vacation.” One of the protesters, who gave his name only as Walter G, said he had been in the army and added that the attitude of some of the police in Ferguson reminded him of men in combat.
(19) It now connotes much more than an economic strategy, evoking, as the phrase “winter of discontent” did for so many years, a much broader sense of unease.
(20) Even if there was no consistent political platform mobilising the protesters, the protests functioned as part of a large-scale educational process: the protesters' misery and discontent were transformed into a great collective act of mobilisation – hundreds of thousands gathered in public squares, proclaiming that they had enough, that things could not go on like that.
Malcontent
Definition:
(a.) discontented; uneasy; dissatisfied; especially, dissatisfied with the government.
(n.) One who discontented; especially, a discontented subject of a government; one who express his discontent by words or overt acts.
Example Sentences:
(1) They see the protesters as petulant malcontents and repeat Trump’s accusation that some of them are surely getting paid to demonstrate.
(2) Discussions of "malcontents" with the mechanistic paradigm across the social sciences and within special education are noted.
(3) David Davis's thundering broadside on Monday caught the mood of the malcontents.
(4) The extent of Farage's ambitions came to light as Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg faced a serious backlash from party malcontents, including at least two parliamentary candidates and several prominent councillors, as activists gathered names on a petition demanding he be replaced immediately by a new leader.
(5) A slice, a sliver of malcontents, each one waving an arm halfheartedly; they looked like strap-hangers in a rush hour train.
(6) She is also under siege, however, at home from malcontents in her coalition government, in the EU because her partners are not sure what she wants, and by third countries who say they are willing to help but are also baffled by the absence of coherent policy in Berlin.
(7) But what's odd about the Tory malcontents is how little they understand their own leaders: for all the U-turns and bungling, there has been absolutely no slippage in the great austerity.
(8) Some claim the last few days were either a fiction of the Murdoch press, still smarting over Ed Miliband’s role in helping to launch the Leveson inquiry, or else a diffuse small group of malcontents – some on the old right worried by Ukip and others on the Blairite wing angered by the repeated trashing of the legacy of New Labour.
(9) Finally, it was possible to dismiss Hoon and Hewitt as malcontents who were acting after their hopes of a job in the European commission were thwarted in the November horse trading over new roles including the presidency.
(10) It would be easy, but wrong, to dismiss yesterday's spasm as the inept work of a pair of out-of-a-job malcontents, hellbent for reasons of ego or ideology on undermining their party.
(11) But on Sky News Labour backbencher Geraldine Smith, the MP for Morecambe and Lunesdale, condemned "a small bunch of malcontents" and said she was "absolutely disgusted" by the move.
(12) I have now closed my social media accounts and assure you there will be no repetition of such activity in the future.” Labour ‘moderates’ are merely malcontents | Letters Read more John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor and Corbyn’s most important leftwing ally, claimed the tweet was an innocent satire about the idea of anarchists standing for election.
(13) He considered many of the fugitives “undesirable malcontents”, according to Brendan Koerner, author of The Skies Belong to Us.
(14) And then when they heard that the crowd had arrived, like a carnival with every malcontent and half-crazed soothsayer following in its wake, Martha went out into the streets to announce her brother's death to my son.
(15) This may well be his 1981 moment: the point at which all the naysayers can be dismissed as weirdy-beardy academics and media malcontents.
(16) Saved created a notorious image of postwar theatre: malcontent youths viciously stoning a baby’s pram.
(17) I didn’t put a gun in anyone’s mouth.” Evans has also come in for criticism, with the star recently hitting out at the “weasels” and “malcontents” who he said wanted to see the show fail.
(18) We are not a nation of haters, scroungers and malcontents.
(19) Liberal moderates warn conservatives against undermining Malcolm Turnbull Read more The current festival of the smackdown, which was unleashed on Saturday night , prosecuted by only a handful of malcontents, has a simple objective: to make sure beyond doubt that Turnbull knows he has no authority to exercise within his own government – that if he remains as leader, he will be the captive creature of his enemies.
(20) For one thing, Banks has more organisational resources and campaigning experience than previous Ukip malcontents, thanks to his prominent role in the Brexit campaign as maestro of Leave.EU.