(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.
Satisfied
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Satisfy
Example Sentences:
(1) Matthias Müller, VW’s chief executive, said: “In light of the wide range of challenges we are currently facing, we are satisfied overall with the start we have made to what will undoubtedly be a demanding fiscal year 2016.
(2) Follow-up for half of the cases operated extended up to 2 years, the longest being up to 5 years, showed that 96% of the patients were satisfied.
(3) The ophthalmic headache's crisis is caused, in fact, by a spasm of convergence on an unknown exophory of which the amplitude of fusion is satisfying, and the presence of which can only be seen with test under screen.
(4) It is suggested that children may learn enough to satisfy their parents' expectations by this age or grade.
(5) There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI-2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI.
(6) Most respondents (46, 95%) were satisfied with life in general.
(7) Although 95% of the patients are satisfied, 60% have some impairment of sensation in the lower lip.
(8) "It is very satisfying work," says the 28-year-old, who earns a net monthly salary of 23,000 kwatcha ($80), probably one of the highest incomes in the village.
(9) Twenty-two of them could be shown to satisfy the Poisson law.
(10) I could just banish the app from my phone forever, but deleting a piece of smart tech that makes my life easier doesn’t feel very satisfying.
(11) Epidemiological criteria for a causal association between snoring and vascular disease have not been satisfied.
(12) All are satisfied by [Formula: see text], where N is the size of rod signal, constant for threshold; theta, theta(D) are steady backgrounds of light and receptor noise; varphi is the threshold flash with sigma a constant of about 2.5 log td sec; B the fraction of pigment in the bleached state.
(13) Whereas on the Self-Cathexis Scale, 45% (N = 9) were satisfied and 55% (N = 11) were dissatisfied with self.
(14) Response latency has been shown to satisfy the first two of these conditions.
(15) He was also satisfied he had joined in racist chanting.
(16) If you can't give them everything at once, you may be able to satisfy at least some of the items on their wish list.
(17) Thus, despite the apparently higher level of pyruvate production in the NPC, exogenous pyruvate is necessary to satisfy the metabolic needs of NPC.
(18) Pain relief was very good, and the patients were generally satisfied.
(19) A method was developed for the preparation of a standard source to satisfy the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission requirement for calibration of wipe-assay procedures used in nuclear medicine laboratories.
(20) The most important basis for evaluating an assistive device is whether it satisfies the needs of the disabled consumer.