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
  • Managers need to watch for signs that workers are discontented, even depressed, Graham says.
    — Joyce M. Rosenberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 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
  • And the most pessimistic and discontented lot of all was white, evangelical Protestants.
    — Michael Gerson, Alaska Dispatch News, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Uncertainty — skepticism's discontented twin — can be very hard to live with.
    — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 23 Mar. 2020
  • And despite Facebook’s dominance, there’s plenty of places for the discontented to go.
    — Maya Kosoff, The Hive, 27 Apr. 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
  • Yet history shows that a positive agenda may not be necessary for a group of discontented powers to cause disruption.
    — Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
  • His wife, Lindsay (Carey Mulligan), picks out fabrics and seems discontented with life.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Ayorinde plays Lucky Emory, a perplexing and discontented housewife.
    — Kovie Biakolo, Essence, 20 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The toppling of Hasina is a historic moment, further evidence that even the most implacable ruler can stave off a discontented people for only so long.
    — Ali Riaz, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Iran’s non-Persian ethnic groups, once relatively quiet, are increasingly discontented with the regime.
    — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 8 June 2018
  • Until several years ago, Xinjiang had experienced a string of deadly attacks by discontented Uighurs.
    — Chris Buckley, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2019
  • 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
  • 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 line is from Goethe’s Faust, the story of a discontented intellectual who sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for unlimited pleasure.
    — Joey Sims, Vulture, 10 May 2024
  • Polling shows voters remain discontented with the economy as inflation holds steady, despite record job creation numbers and an unemployment rate hovering near 50-year lows.
    — Time, 7 July 2023
  • And yet Kidman has been more visible than ever in 2024, making a five-course meal out of what can be described only as variations on the theme of the discontented matriarch.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Serious or not, secession — or independence, as some prefer to call it — has long been the dream of dissenters, of the discontented and those who feel put upon or politically unrepresented.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Serious or not, secession — or independence, as some prefer to call it — has long been the dream of dissenters, of the discontented and those who feel put upon or politically unrepresented.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026

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