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How to use discontent in a sentence

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In reality, however, it was plain that Macdowall, far from raising spirits, was fanning the embers of discontent.
It is easy to see why rumour abounds about the levels of discontent simmering within the company.
Most patients were content with their care, the determining feature of discontent being a doctor seen as rude, abrupt, or unsympathetic.
I see all these colours against a background of acid yellow, with a touch of green for envy, malice and general discontent.
As we waited, annoyed discontent began to give way to barely controllable rage.
Today, discontent tended to make me think it's all a hollow shell, that perhaps all that effort, all that sacrifice, were not worth my while.
Less than a year into his hard-won presidential mandate, the president is reaping a bitter harvest of popular discontent.
Those long years in the political wilderness were traumatized by discord and discontent.
Analysts described the result as a reflection of deep-rooted popular discontent over the state government's failure.
In the light of the discontent on the back-benches, we have to have alternatives.
Influenced by popular discontent with much of the judiciary, Napoleon attempted to write a statutory code that was essentially judge-proof.
Popular discontent with the limitations of Gladstonian Liberalism was also developing.
And indeed ominous rumblings of discontent could be heard beneath the cheerful banter of returning faculty and staff.
By 2000, rumblings of discontent have made themselves manifest in the party.
I also hear there have been rumblings of discontent among some of the fans over the timing of our trip.
Recently, a few rumblings of discontent with the institutional status quo have been felt from various parts of Canada.
But despite the public show of unity from the current council, rumblings of discontent were not far from the surface.
At the same time, he was equipped with a political antenna that was finely attuned to social discontent and class conflict.
Residents in Passage East are enduring another summer of discontent due to traffic tailbacks approaching the local car ferry.
Somehow, they gathered themselves to beat Limerick in the first round of the qualifiers but the core discontent hadn't been addressed.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The chorus of good angels again comes on the stage, and with antiphonal harmonies reveals the growing discontent.
In that case his discontent may take itself out in slighting his task and wasting your time and lengthening his bill.
Was not the disestablishment of the Church to remove all cause of discontent?
There was chronic discontent throughout the Tudor period, but it was sectional.
The rose-colored glasses have been broken early, and she is gazing through the murky, cloudy atmosphere of discontent.
There was discontent in her eyes, which were her most convincing attraction.
To put discontent away from her and to keep her thoughts occupied she began the spring housecleaning.
He was not a drinker at home, but in his discontent and disappointment he was tempted.
Meanwhile Lord Kitchener was doing his best to deal with the accruing winter discontent.
The ever growing murmurs of discontent gave place to cries for vengeance and unrepressed acts of hostility.
A science was encapsuled here which could speak of war and curiosity as discontent, but could say nothing definite of contentment.
Two little notes to Servatius at this time are quite in the usual tone of Erasmian discontent.
The suppressed psychic impulse remains strong enough to revenge itself, by discontent and interception, on the suppressing agency.
His mind, floating in irresolution and discontent, recognized it with bitterness.
They rather prove regicide as a form of superannuation, or as the result of the machinations of priests, or of public discontent.
He seems to have wasted life in discontent, by the rage of neglected pride, and the languishment of unsatisfied desire.
He was in that state of factitious discontent which belongs to us amiable English.
Reus has many branches of industry and might be a happy community if it would subdue its revolutionary discontent.
Out of that maladaptation and the discontent and rebellion will arise her neurosis.
This is wise, since nothing nurses discontent like interference with folkways.
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