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Other times it arrives loaded with baggage and settles in for a good long visit, long enough that your discontentedness grows, and you begin acting strangely.

From Slate • Jul. 10, 2014

You are pleasèd, more or less, As men well or ill report you; And show discontentedness, When the times forbear to court you.

From Pastoral Poems by Nicholas Breton, Selected Poetry by George Wither, and Pastoral Poetry by William Browne (of Tavistock) by Tutin, J. R.

There like thou wast to be thrown overboard In every storm of discontentedness.

From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir