Antonym: content. Similar words: discontentment, discontinue, discontinuance, content, contentment, malcontent, contention, contentious. Meaning: [‚dɪskən'tent] n. a longing for something better than the present situation. v. make dissatisfied. adj. showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing.
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151 We heard a mutter of discontent.
152 But the discontent is clearly worrisome to China's central government as well.
153 The whole of their drive to the Vicarage was spent by him in expressing his discontent.
154 Let your discontent break mountain-high against the wall of prejudice, and swamp it to the very foundation. Sentencedict.com
155 KCTU spokeswoman Woo Moon-sook says workers share the protesters' discontent.
156 That's what the Buddha did long ago to free himself from his own discontent and persistent doubts about what he heard, day-after-day, from his parents, teachers and the palace priests.
157 The discontent has been fuelled by allegations of corruption in high places.
158 Then, perhaps- for there was no foreseeing how it might affect her- Pearl would frown, and clench her little fist, and harden her small features into a stern, unsympathising look of discontent.
159 Other politicians described the scenes in Rome as nothing less than urban guerrilla warfare, saying it hurt the cause of those trying to freely express their discontent.
160 Taft continued stubbornly to defend him and thus exacerbated popular discontent.
161 Faced with growing discontent, as rising expectations clash with lowered economic performance, post-communist rulers turn to nationalism to preserve their own power.
162 It originated in the mid-1960s as a music of the Jamaican poor, reflecting social discontent and the Rastafarian movement.
163 Discontent and populism may now form a vicious circle, both causing economic failure and worsening it.
164 When discussing reasons for discontent, the law of diminishing utility is relevant.
165 Decision crisis means the phenomenon that decision content make the public discontent or resist mood, cause the too drastic and behavioral in the government managing of public.
166 The disputes are fueled by the discontent of workers, many of whom say they haven't partaken of the past decade's prosperity.
167 If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.
168 Suddenly a Faustian spirit of discontent and universal reform descends on you.
169 Any signs of discontent tend to be magnified and overanalyzed.
170 Key elements of the strategy -- including a cheap currency, regulated interest rates and low energy prices -- are stoking discontent in fellow developing countries, not just Western capitals.
171 It's true that farmers there will suffer as protective trade barriers fall. But a deeper source of their discontent is sheer, longstanding poverty.
172 Despite their popularity among parents and students, the time-limit order has sparked strong discontent from after-school class operators.
173 By tacit agreement they turned to the wine to dispel their discontent.
174 When discussing reasons for discontent, the law of diminishing utility is relevant. Following this logic, insatiable desires are to blame.
175 In this season of our discontent I find it heartening to look back.
176 President Barack Obama is aware of the public discontent with more automaker aid.
177 However, change from discontent is something that you have to execute consciously, because discontent can also provide you with a safety zone.
178 Another source of discontent is tourist's lack of respect for the town's religious traditions - most notably the daily alms-giving ceremony where monks collect food offerings from the faithful.
179 The Tories throw in the bodies left unburied in the "winter of discontent" and the IMF bail-out of 1976.
180 Suspicion, discontent, and strife, come in for dowry with a wife---Robert Herrick, poet.
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