disgruntled
Use Disgruntled in a sentence
tld adjective
displeased and discontented; sulky; peevish: Her disgruntled husband refused to join us.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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disgruntle (dɪsˈɡrʌntəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| (tr; usually passive) to make sulky or discontented | |
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| dis'gruntlement | |
| —n | |
| disgruntled (dɪsˈɡrʌntəld) | |
| —adj | |
| feeling or expressing discontent or anger | |
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Word Origin & History
disgruntle
1680s, from dis- "entirely, very" + obs. gruntle "to grumble," frequentative of grunt (q.v.).
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Example sentences
Eventually the agents arrested three disgruntled employees who had set fire to furniture in the ballroom.
When talk does turn to politics, the mood is disgruntled.
Today many businessmen in and around the capital are disgruntled.
It is almost a tautology that faculty are disgruntled.
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