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Meanings of malcontent in English

Discontented as toward authority.

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Examples for "rebellious"
Examples for "rebellious"
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Yet in the crisis of such a struggle rebellious thoughts may arise.
Certain Personal Matters
2
She was branded as 'rebellious' and treacherous' by her own party members.
The South African
3
Nevertheless, the King held the rebellious Okies under control without apparent effort.
Cities in Flight
4
Her usual rebellious spells involved lifestyle changes that lasted a few months.
Dark dreamer: a dark vista romance
5
She became a very, very rebellious teenager, in every possible way .
The Guardian
1
And the number of the disaffected in the army is always increasing.
"The Kingdom of God Is Within You" / Christianity Not as a Mysti...
2
It's too good and too final an escape route for disaffected comrades.
Cities in Flight
3
It is also home to nomad clans disaffected with rule from Cairo.
Reuters
4
A high turnout could show whether SF has mobilised the disaffected vote.
The Irish Times
5
Besides, the British have lost their interest in America with the disaffected.
The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): The America...
1
Thus ill-affected did Ferdinand find the Bohemians, when he succeeded Matthias.
The History of the Thirty Years' War
2
There is no king here so hateful to me as you are, for you are ever quarrelsome and ill-affected.
The Iliad
Usage of malcontent in English
1
I was the oldest and most malcontent goddess on the ancient continent.
Spellwright
2
The malcontent repeated his vow, and it rang throughout the village-city.
Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales
3
The movement was not so much definitely royalist as vaguely malcontent.
The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)
4
Burridge became little more than a malcontent in many people's eyes.
Twelve Men
5
I was described as a dangerous malcontent, who had deserted his native land.
The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2
6
Billy Underwood had been the chief malcontent under Jim's liquor ruling.
Still Jim
7
At the other extreme of thought stands the born malcontent.
William Pitt and the Great War
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His son the malcontent: the back-talker; the monosyllabic mood machine.
The half life of stars: a novel
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But organics reported everything that might indicate a potential for eccentricity or a malcontent.
Dayworld Rebel
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Larralde is, it appears, a malcontent, and on the wrong side of the wall.
In Kedar's Tents
11
Yet Williams was a frightful malcontent who hastened his self-destruction through brandy and barbiturates.
The Irish Times
12
Harry's transformation into a figure of public malcontent seemed complete.
News.com.au
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The notion of Sánchez as a malcontent superstar is unfair.
The Guardian
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These are not the idle whims of a whinging malcontent.
The Guardian
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Cincinnatus wouldn't have been broken-hearted had the malcontent hit him.
American empire: blood and iron
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The rallying cry of the band of malcontent farmers was the yelp of a wolf.
The Bastonnais / Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775...
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