Discontentment

//dɪskənˈtɛntmənt//

"Discontentment" in a Sentence (6 examples)

Everything this boy says oozes discontentment. I have to wonder about his parents.

Misdirected discontentment on the left and right boiled over into violent incidents across the country.

"Teenage discontentment" is redundant.

Their marriage simmered with discontentment and unspoken anger.

Contentment enriches the poor. Discontentment impoverishes the rich.

By this that ſtraunger knight in preſence came, / And goodly ſalued them; who nought againe / Him anſwered, as courteſie became, / But with ſterne lookes, and ſtomachous diſdaine, / Gaue ſignes of grudge and diſcontentment vaine: […]

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