Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See malcontent.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Malcontent.

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  • adjective obsolete Alternative spelling of malcontent.

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Examples

  • And my Lord of Morton left the place, and, as it seemed to me, somewhat malecontent.

    The Abbot 2008

  • These were unanimous; for circumstances contributed to convince the malecontent party that they stood at the

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • “It was not I who sent for you, dame,” replied the malecontent maiden.

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

  • Ilildebrod and his senate find a topping householder in the Friars becomes discontented and factious, it is but assigning him, for a lodger, some fat bankrupt, or new lesidenter, whose circumstances require refuge, and whose purse can pay for it, and the malecontent becomes as tractable as a lamb.

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

  • Margaret Bellenden had returned, in romantic phrase, malecontent and full of heaviness, at the unexpected, and, as she deemed it, indelible affront, which had been brought upon her dignity by the public miscarriage of Goose

    Old Mortality 2004

  • I by rights belonged with these malecontent and objurgating gentlemen; but a chronicler has privileges, and I got leave to count myself into the Eighth Company, my old friend Captain Shumway's.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 Various

  • I could not see that the impartial sunbeams, tempered by this skylight, had burned away the insignia of the malecontent States.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 Various

  • When he returned, about the tenth of November, Laudonnière persuaded him to carry home seven or eight of the malecontent soldiers.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

  • And it soon made the malecontent quiver and cower,

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various

  • However, the ministerial households contrived to subsist, in spite of rhetorical tropes and malecontent millionnaires.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various

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