How to Use malcontent in a Sentence

malcontent

noun
  • He complained so much that he got a reputation for being a malcontent.
  • The Stranger Things malcontents might observe that the show tends to do the same thing over and over again and that the formula is getting stale.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 4 July 2019
  • But Brown was a malcontent who rarely started during two years with the Raiders.
    Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2021
  • By night, the pampered Midge turns into a malcontent, seething against the confines of her fairy-tale life.
    Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2018
  • The case has gripped Belgium and posed wider questions about how the country deals with malcontent in its armed forces.
    NBC News, 24 May 2021
  • Thomas was one of the malcontents Belichick cleaned out after the 2009 season ended in a wild-card round rout by the Ravens.
    Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2020
  • Deadpool and his foul-mouthed crew of misfits and malcontents have taken down the Avengers.
    Fox News, 20 May 2018
  • The most acute concern is his late father, Bert Goldberg, who was a wall of rage and malcontent.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
  • The Phillies released Thomas, but local fans took his side in the dispute, and Mr. Allen was branded a malcontent.
    Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Eventually, the three were identified as malcontents who hoped to launch a war against the law, then hide out in the rugged desert and canyons west of Cortez.
    Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2017
  • As usual, Koepka, golf’s all-world malcontent, used the right words to take aim at the wrong target, blaming the media rather than the storm itself.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2022
  • His hold will be weak, given a single malcontent can call for his removal—and be guaranteed a vote on it.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Rondo and Cousins have been viewed as malcontents at various times in their careers.
    Ron Higgins, NOLA.com, 9 May 2018
  • Elsewhere, Loskutoff names the grievances of his malcontents.
    Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 21 May 2018
  • As a malcontent, Saul tends toward a policy of not so much getting mad about anything in particular as of getting even across the board.
    Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Get our daily newsletter Sebastián Piñera, Chile’s centre-right president, at first took a tough line with the malcontents.
    The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Does Milwaukee remember Yount as an enigma or even a malcontent, instead of the most beloved athlete in the city's history?
    Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2020
  • Whiteside brings to Portland a reputation for being a malcontent who, at times, has been more focused on himself than his team.
    Joe Freeman, oregonlive.com, 11 July 2019
  • Turns out the measurement on speculating when Irving would begin his moody malcontent routine should not have been in years, or even months.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2019
  • The extent of Google’s employee rebellion is hard to measure—the company has tried to portray it as the work of a handful of malcontents from the company’s junior ranks.
    Ryan Gallagher, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2019
  • The current dour mood emboldens executives to get rid of everyone who is deemed to be a low-performer or malcontent.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Wiseman was training us early on to seek solidarity, yes, but also to own our malcontent, and cut out its roots.
    Bridget Read, Vogue, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Her latest film shows her taking on another malcontent hoping to break free from the tightly corseted bonds of a mannequin lifestyle.
    Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2022
  • To hear President Trump’s supporters tell it, there is a secret army of malcontents lurking deep within the bowels of government whose goal is to drive Trump from office.
    Dina Temple-Raston, Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2020
  • The contentious exits of Smith and Williams were written off as the shedding of salaries and malcontents, but the decision to rescind Norman’s franchise tag was Gettleman’s biggest blunder.
    Joseph Person, charlotteobserver, 17 July 2017
  • Paddy wagons will be filled with Hawaiian shirt-wearing malcontents as the Jazz Fest breaks all previous attendance records.
    Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 1 May 2018
  • More blah-blah-blah noise could be made on Saturday, when another small group of malcontents find out once and for all that FC Cincinnati isn't going to freely pass out seven-figure checks all around the neighborhood.
    Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 12 May 2018
  • Once again, a small group of far-right malcontents had succeeded, if nothing else, in fomenting conflict and enlisting state power in that effort.
    Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 4 Sep. 2019
  • There is less interest these days in the existential trials of the uprooted; attention has shifted to those malcontents who, we are told, have become strangers in their own land.
    Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 6 June 2019
  • But those jabs were misguided, spun by malcontents to stoke anger against an iniquitous regime the queen neither created nor controlled.
    Jeffrey Westbrook. Styled By Will Kahn, Town & Country, 22 Aug. 2019

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