Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Uneasiness of mind; inquietude; dissatisfaction.
Wiktionary
- n. The state or quality of being discontented.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a longing for something better than the present situation
Examples
“It is a patchwork of Clan, tribal loyalties, religious zealotry, appallingly poor, indemicly corrupt politician, power mad factionally torn military and a corporate sector which is (not surprisingy greedy and in for their chop) all of which are in varing degrees fractiousness and discontentedness.”
Pakistan "Emergency" Ban of Constitution, Independent Media-- A Media Emergency In USA Too
“You cannot travel if you provoke discontentedness and want to travel through legal means, but if you hijack an airplane or a motorboat or jump on a raft you get what you want.”
“Murti is a misreading for apurti or discontentedness.”
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
“Her tour to the Lakes was now the object of her happiest thoughts: it was her best consolation for all the uncomfortable hours which the discontentedness of her mother and Kitty made inevitable; and could she have included Jane in the scheme every part of it would have been perfect.”
“Sometimes he has felt a depression of spirits, a general discontentedness, before experiencing a strong erection; in these cases coitus has cleared his spirits.”
“Her tour to the Lakes was now the object of her happiest thoughts; it was her best consolation for all the uncomfortable hours which the discontentedness of her mother and Kitty made inevitable; and could she have included Jane in the scheme, every part of it would have been perfect.”
“But now that a man may make money, and rise in the world, and associate himself, unreproached, with people once far above him, not only is the natural discontentedness of humanity developed to an unheard-of extent, whatever”
“- In spite of all my Mother's long and intimate knowledge of the Writer, she was not up to the expectation of such a Letter as this; the discontentedness of it shocked & surprised her-but I see nothng in it out of Nature-tho 'a sad nature.”
“Where there wants contentment, there wants no sin; discontentedness with our condition is a sin that doth not go along, but is like the first link of the chain which draws all the other links along with it.”
The Art of Divine Contentment: An Exposition of Philippians 4:11
“Given the present discontentedness of the citizenry over the state of the country, and their being glued to the TV, they will never figure any of this out, and in their frustration they will merely react unthinkingly, thus swarming into a New World Order controlled fake anti-Fed revolution.”
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seanahan That state of being discontented, see also discontentness. Mar 1, 2007