discontented
[dis-kuh n-ten-tid]
- not content or satisfied; dissatisfied; restlessly unhappy: For all their wealth, or perhaps because of it, they were discontented.
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Origin of discontented
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“It is a pity there is no timber anywhere,” said Howell, discontentedly.
The Boy SettlersNoah Brooks
"I shouldn't think you would have let him make a visit," said Tom, discontentedly.
The Cash BoyHoratio Alger Jr.
"She could not possibly have got so far as this before the attack was made," he said discontentedly.
The Crooked HouseBrandon Fleming
It beat me, in its delicate bossing, and I had to leave it, discontentedly enough.
Proserpina, Volume 1John Ruskin
"I wish, anyway, you wouldn't stick at it so closely," he said discontentedly.
Marriage la modeMrs. Humphry Ward