dissatisfied

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Feeling sad and unhappy
a long faceidiom
abjection
angsty
be cut upidiom
be down in the mouthidiom
be in a funkidiom
displeased
dissatisfied
distraught
distressed
dog
lonely
lonesome
lovelorn
lovesick
wistful
wistfully
woe
woe is meidiom
woebegone

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disgruntled | American Dictionary

disgruntled
adjective
us/dɪsˈɡrʌn·təld/
unhappy, annoyed, and disappointed about something:
a disgruntled employee

Examples of disgruntled

disgruntled
Consider again the disgruntled professor who wants to hire an assassin.
Dismissed from the magistracy, they became easy targets for those disgruntled by their judgements.
Secondly, given that local governments assume considerable power and autonomy, there can be variation in their attitudes towards disgruntled citizens.
Instead of that preoccupation with the particulars of administration, which characterized their previously internal discourse, they now exhibited the concerns of disgruntled outsiders.
The disgruntled professor's utterance is a fairly straightforward instance of criminal solicitation.
Is it a word, simply because 'disgruntled' is a word?
Yet many physicians are disgruntled, retiring early, and seeking other careers.
Minor-party candidates will instead find their most loyal supporters among the disenchanted, disgruntled and disaffected.
Thus disgruntled children could always turn to uncles.
The scenario outlines three familiar ethical issues - retention of disgruntled physicians, potential problems in coding and billing, and the threat of a nursing strike.
So it is up to any slightly disgruntled user who cannot find their pet terms, or think others ought to be emended, to do something about it.
Northern environmentalists have been pressuring their governments to force these countries to upgrade their environmental standards and have found unnatural allies in the disgruntled producers.
Board members actively encouraged employers to steer disgruntled workers their way.
Even if it was unlikely that the electoral process would be problem-free, it appeared unlikely that disgruntled elements would be able to find credible reasons for challenging its overall result.
There is some evidence that this movement was manipulated by the princes of the royal house, who were disgruntled at their loss of privileges after 1891.
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