disgruntle
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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“They didn’t want to disgruntle anyone. And if you go with Kanye, you have to know there is risk involved.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2022
When you disgruntle nearly a billion people, it becomes fairly big news, right away: The biggest tech news sites were on the story in nanoseconds.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2011
Could he disgruntle Mr. Grundy—the Mr. Grundy who raised for the Republicans $700,000 in 1924, $615,000 in 1926, and $547,000 in 1928?
From Time Magazine Archive
When two skaters fell through the ice on a Peiping lake, the Chronicle crisply reported: "They eyed ice angrily for some time before leaving in disgruntle."
From Time Magazine Archive
Stay where you are," he said, "for I'm not minded you shall do that which may disgruntle the commandant.
From The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley by James Otis
The poet hopes to humanize bureaucratic spaces like the airport, a thorny subject for many disgruntled travelers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
"They come from a disgruntled employee attempting to leverage a settlement in a meritless workplace dispute."
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
However, refreshed and reshaped, Wouter Vrancken's men are embracing the trip to face a Celtic side still failing to convince a support that are becoming increasingly disgruntled after another chastening European defeat at Benfica.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Avoiding necessary dues increases can expose the association, and potentially its board members, to lawsuits from disgruntled owners when a lack of adequate reserves hinders property sales, Weiss said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Effie Trinket is disgruntled about the state her wig was in.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
The trade-off between disgruntling some existing customers and luring new ones will probably work out for Southwest, according to Raymond James analyst Savanthi Syth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
Industry representatives say they walk a fine line trying to adapt without disgruntling their core customers, but some think a real solution would need to be more radical.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022
This isn't the first time Markle has been accused of disgruntling royal staff.
From Fox News ● Mar. 28, 2019
The ambuscade capped a notably disgruntling week for Labor.
From Time Magazine Archive
At about the same period he accepted office as Justice of the Peace—thereby still further disgruntling his aristocratic Denbigh cousins.
From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Donald G. Mitchell
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