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malcontent

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mal·con·tent  (mlkn-tnt)
adj.
Dissatisfied with existing conditions.
n.
1. A chronically dissatisfied person.
2. One who rebels against the established system: "immature malcontents who have long since sold out to conformity" (John M. Wilson).
malcontent
Noun
a person who is discontented with the existing situation [Old French]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.malcontent - a person who is discontented or disgusted
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
caviler, caviller, quibbler, pettifogger - a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections
sorehead - someone who is peevish or disgruntled
squabbler - someone who quarrels about a small matter
Adj.1.malcontent - discontented as toward authority
disaffected, ill-affected, rebellious
discontent, discontented - showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing; "saw many discontent faces in the room"; "was discontented with his position"
malcontent
noun 1. troublemaker, rebel, complainer, grumbler, grouser, agitator, stirrer (informal) mischief-maker, grouch (informal) fault-finder
adjective 2. discontented, unhappy, disgruntled, dissatisfied, disgusted, rebellious, resentful, disaffected, restive, unsatisfied, ill-disposed, factious


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Denisov, not being a member of the family, did not understand Pierre's caution and being, as a malcontent, much interested in what was occurring in Petersburg, kept urging Pierre to tell them about what had happened in the Semenovsk regiment, then about Arakcheev, and then about the Bible Society.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
This prince, besides his ill will to Sultan Segued, which was kept up by some malcontents among the Abyssin nobility, who, provoked at the conversion of their master, were plotting a revolt, entertained an inveterate hatred against the Portuguese for the death of his grandfather, who had been killed many years before, which he swore the blood of the Jesuits should repay.
A Voyage to Abyssinia by Lobo, Father View in context
Who can determine what might have been the issue of her late convulsions, if the malcontents had been headed by a Caesar or by a Cromwell?
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context
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