discontentedly

discontent | American Dictionary

discontent
noun[ U ]
us/ˌdɪs·kənˈtent/
a feeling of not being satisfied with your situation or with the way you are being treated:
Mexican-American leaders expressed discontent with the administration.

discontented

adjectiveus/ˌdɪs·kənˈten·tɪd/
Discontented with her job, Cassandra often talked of leaving.

Examples of discontent

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They went as far as leaving the meetings to show their discontent and ended up not attending them at all any more.
Discontent among the people contributed to pressure from many quarters to check the powers of the president.
Or has the same process of lobbying by threat of disruption and central appeasement of the politically discontented continued?
This in turn could have made possible some containment of the discontent and given some hope to the people which might have lessened their anger.
The most assertively discontented and mobilized regions received larger benefits than their more docile - though arguably more 'needy' or 'deserving' - neighbours.
The 1970s and 1980s witnessed revolts and ethnic conflicts drawing on the strength of rural loyalties and discontent.
Ethnic questions, in particular, remained at the forefront of domestic discontent.
A one-dimensional measure of the quality of life might show overall satisfaction with life but fail to indicate their emotional discontent.
I knew the reason of my own profound discontent.
Religious opposition, especially from mainstream denominations, went hand-in-glove with press and civic discontent.
Rather, its success began to serve as an inspiration to discontented groups in the so-called second and first worlds.
The growing discontent with scientific expert testimony provided ample ground for these anxieties.
In the same way, a reduction in levels of popular discontent would have meant that revolutionary syndicalism found less fertile terrain for agitation.
Voters might also express their discontent simply by deciding not to vote.
It is unsurprising, therefore, that historians have tended to link these events with earlier demonstrations of popular discontent.
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Collocations withdiscontent

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cause of discontent
That loophole should be closed once for all; otherwise, it will be a constant cause of discontent and will return to haunt us.
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