disaffected

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Nor is that province used as a penal settlement for the disaffected, as others would infer.

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  1. adjective Resentful and rebellious, especially against authority.

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  • The militia have been inspired, by the recent success, with confidence—the disaffected are silenced. —  The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock
  • When he assumed the government of the province, he found a divided, disaffected, and, of course, a weak people. —  The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock
  • He also began a map of the country, in the vicinity of the fort; of the roads, by-roads, paths, creeks, morasses, ;c., which might become hiding-places for the disaffected or for marauding parties. —  Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1.
  • The boldness of the consul's measures cowed the disaffected, and confirmed the timid and wavering. —  Cicero
  • The National Guard took part with the disaffected, and the Convention, threatened and perplexed, summoned to its aid a body of five thousand regular troops. —  A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
 

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/dɪsəˈfɛktɛd/
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