How to Use discontented in a Sentence

discontented

adjective

• There's a lot of people out there, and a lot of discontented people out there.
  — CBS News, 3 July 2019
• The company seems to have struck a chord with some discontented employees in Japan.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 9 June 2023
• Fort Mose was closer to the discontented English in colonies northward.
  — Imani J. Jackson, Essence, 19 June 2019
• And now, in the winter of Harford County’s discontented year, its largest hospital was the first in the state to self-declare a disaster.
  — Jason Fontelieu, baltimoresun.com, 30 Dec. 2021
• England is in turmoil, and as Cromwell oversees the dissolution of the kingdom’s monasteries, the discontented Catholics in the north rebel.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• And despite Facebook’s dominance, there’s plenty of places for the discontented to go.
  — Maya Kosoff, The Hive, 27 Apr. 2017
• And the most pessimistic and discontented lot of all was white, evangelical Protestants.
  — Michael Gerson, Alaska Dispatch News, 10 Oct. 2017
• Viewers on social media point out that both Gotham and Hong Kong are home to groups of discontented people who feel abandoned by their government and a rich elite.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 29 Oct. 2019
• Managers need to watch for signs that workers are discontented, even depressed, Graham says.
  — Joyce M. Rosenberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2017
• Everything seemed to be falling apart for the Bucks, including one glass railing panel struck and fractured by a discontented fan.
  — Matt Velazquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2020
• Sparked mainly by public creditors and abetted by discontented army officers, the movement was weakened by the coming of peace and the local jealousies of the states.
  — Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
• Look at the many discontented Americans out for social justice today, Grayman-Parkhurst points out — adding that, of course, these assassins took things much too far.
  — Kate Miller, kansascity.com, 22 May 2017
• There’s no doubt that Kaspersky—and his company—are caught in the crossfire of two increasingly discontented world powers.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2017
• By Sunday night, a blanket of snow in Washington seemed to provide a calming backdrop for the discontented president.
  — Darlene Superville, The Seattle Times, 14 Jan. 2019
• The result seemed to cement the party’s long march from the political fringe to the center of the nation’s discontented political discourse, if not the pinnacle of its power.
  — Griff Witte, Washington Post, 7 May 2017
• Ahmari and a lot of social conservatives seems discontented with two things that might be separate.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 June 2019
• Whether by accident or design, Trump picked up on that discontent and successfully rallied the discontented to build a base and take on all opponents.
  — Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 26 July 2019
• In his address on Monday, Mr. Ghani broke with the former administration’s tactic of describing the Taliban as discontented brothers in the hopes of urging them to talks.
  — Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2016
• Shakespeare has become a mostly May-to-August affair, despite the Bard’s penchant for discontented winters and warring winds.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
• There can be no assurances that Facebook would be a better corporate citizen if Zuckerberg could be fired by a discontented board.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• So why are the well-employed, ambitious 30-year-olds of my acquaintance feeling so adrift, as discontented as the balding midlife sad sacks whose cliché dissatisfactions made Updike rich?
  — Lisa Miller, The Cut, 6 Sep. 2017
• Uncertainty — skepticism's discontented twin — can be very hard to live with.
  — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 23 Mar. 2020
• The raters join a wave of discontented contractors in speaking out: workers who ensure YouTube videos contain the correct metadata went on strike the same week, alleging unfair labor practices.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• Ayorinde plays Lucky Emory, a perplexing and discontented housewife.
  — Kovie Biakolo, Essence, 20 Apr. 2021
• But the macro issue of mishandling the wideout inventory to put him in this discontented position is the more relevant discussion.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2019
• Many people are resentful and feel abandoned, a potential pool of the discontented ripe for recruitment by unscrupulous extremists.
  — Bill Neely, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2019
• This instigated discussion of a fan boycott, but these discontented rumblings have somewhat subsided, following a number of smart signings by the club.
  — SI.com, 9 Aug. 2019
• Until several years ago, Xinjiang had experienced a string of deadly attacks by discontented Uighurs.
  — Chris Buckley, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2019
• But the military is facing new challenges to its authority from a discontented public, making this an especially fraught moment in the nation’s history.
  — Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• The deal has weighed on Illumina for several years by plunging it into legal challenges with U.S. and European regulators, causing conflicts with discontented investors and leading to a shake-up of its leadership.
  — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024