Malcontents

Word MALCONTENTS
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Definitions and meanings of "Malcontents"

What do we mean by malcontents?

A person who is not satisfied with current conditions; a discontented person, a rebel.

A state of discontentment or dissatisfaction; something that causes discontent.

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The word "malcontents" in example sentences

Some sage once said that the trouble with malcontents is that there is no satisfying them. ❋ Unknown (2000)

.. oHHH well you are keeping certain malcontents off the street ... ❋ Norfolk Blogger (2009)

Unhappily for the president and his new secretary of state, one of the malcontents was their rich and powerful friend Andrew Carnegie. ❋ Patricia O'Toole (2008)

They don't, in the main, want someone who's going to rule for flag burners, pornographers, terrorists and various malcontents, which is sometimes what originalism demands. ❋ Ann Althouse (2006)

But what most clearly encouraged the malcontents was the power of Alcibiades at Samos, and their own disbelief in the stability of the oligarchy; and it was now a race between them as to which should first become the leader of the commons. ❋ Thucydides (2005)

Among the malcontents were the Bulls, part of whom inhabited a pasture so rich that it was called the Green ❋ Various (N/A)

What chiefly encouraged the malcontents was the fact that the benefits to be gained by the dissolution of the monasteries were evident and present, while the ill-results lay in the future. ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)

Prominent among the malcontents was the deposed governor, Wingfield, who tried to bribe the colonists to return; another member of the council was shot for mutiny. ❋ Julian Hawthorne (1890)

"Meanwhile," said Game, who of all the malcontents was the most honest, ❋ Talbot Baines Reed (1872)

It is mentioned in some accounts of his life that he was elected in 1811 to the New York House of Assembly by a party called the malcontents, but I have not had the means of verifying this account, nor am I able to discover what were the objects for which the party called malcontents was formed. ❋ Bryant, William C (1870)

England the most formidable of the malcontents were the ❋ Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1846)

Among the malcontents were a number of noisy, vapouring persons, such as are found in every camp, who, like empty bubbles, are sure to rise to the surface and make themselves seen in seasons of agitation. ❋ Unknown (1843)

The two big-name malcontents from last season - Donovan McNabb and Haynesworth - are gone, just in time for the players' official report date Thursday. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Burley said that he spent large parts of the qualifying campaign trying to sort out some unruly players in the squad, players he had identified as malcontents from very early on in his reign.

My stint in the military was nearly four decades ago but in my day I can assure you "malcontents" were shown the door. ❋ Unknown (2009)

4 But what most clearly encouraged the malcontents was the power of Alcibiades at Samos, and their own conviction that the oligarchy was unstable; and that it was now a race among them as to who should first become the leader of The People. ❋ Robert B. Strassler (2003)

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