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malcontentment

malcontentment noun: the state or quality of being malcontent.

Noun

malcontentment (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being malcontent.
    • Whilst, by the above language and acts accordant, Lord Durham was provoking our malcontentment up to the latest moment, the refugees from Canada in the United States, and the armed Americans who sympathised with them, turned the public discontents to account by organizing an invasion, in connexion...1876, History of Canada from the Time of Its Discovery Till the Union of 1840-41

Questions about malcontentment

What does malcontentment mean?
Malcontentment means the state or quality of being malcontent.
What part of speech is malcontentment?
Malcontentment is a noun.

Words near malcontentment in the dictionary

  1. malcontentedly
  2. malcontentedness
  3. malcontenting
  4. malcontentism
  5. malcontently
  6. malcontentment
  7. malcontents
  8. malcoordinated
  9. malcreate
  10. malcreated
  11. malcultivation

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