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Disgruntle

Disgruntle \Dis*grun"tle\, v. t. To dissatisfy; to disaffect; to anger. [Colloq.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disgruntle

1680s, from dis- "entirely, very" + obsolete gruntle "to grumble" (Middle English gruntelen, early 15c.), frequentative of grunt (v.).

Wiktionary
disgruntle

vb. (context transitive English) To make discontent or cross; to cause being in a bad temper.

WordNet
disgruntle

v. put into a bad mood or into bad humour; "The employees were disgruntled by their bad working conditions"

Usage examples of "disgruntle".

Star alpinists would be stopped in their tracks if a disgruntled sponsor cut off the shipments of food and equipment.

Coedric was disgruntled as well, having been forced to put aside his coelacanth helm, and don the lavender livery of the imaginary nation of Sheba.

Membership in outlaw motorcycle gangs swells in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a second wave of disgruntled warriors-soldiers from the Vietnam War bring to the gangs much needed explosives and weapons skills as well as military contacts who arm the clubs.

Or else disgruntled Jicarilla have wiped them out and nobody this far from the mesa noticed the considerable gunplay that should have taken place.

Wet and disgruntled, he followed Kerrie to the reception desk where she was inquiring about her mother.

Kohunlich-tul, Xhojee, Benedikt, a disgruntled Ooman Xhai, and every guard the Kohunlich-tul had in Atixlan save those actually on the doors, waited in the vestibule for a karjen from the stable to bring the cart around.

No more Well of Lost Plots, no more Generics, no more Council, no more strikes by disgruntled nurseries.

Flint had a late snack, which they shared with a disgruntled Zipp and they fell into bed.

Our department is perfectly familiar with these petty jealousies, which usually accompany awards of this class, and generally emanate from disappointed and disgruntled competitors.

Because that fucking beanfield was an instant and potentially explosive symbol which no doubt had already captured the imaginations of a few disgruntled fanatics, and the only surprise about the whole affair, as Bernabe saw it, was, how come nobody had thought of it sooner?

The disgruntled section made a point of muttering their discontent so loudly that at first the question-master asked them to keep the noise abated and, when they took no heed of him, Fergus, the barman, pointed out that the brewers, the owners of the establishment, supported the quiz nights strongly.

The disgruntled Maxatil clients could be stiff-armed, through bankruptcy.

Enforcer is a dead-brained dickless asshole if he lets himself be taken by a few disgruntled vampires.

She stopped and threw a disgruntled gaze at the image of three Romulan warbirds on the viewscreen.

Instant-Replay-Video Scoreboard, disgruntled or professionally suicidal or both, started training his camera on the bedroom windows and routing the resultant multi-limbed coital images up onto the 75-meter Scoreboard screen, etc.