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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disgruntled
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Disgruntled employees are leaving to work for other firms.
▪ After long delays, disgruntled passengers were taken to a nearby hotel.
▪ It was the second pay cut in two years, and employees were becoming disgruntled.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a consequence, whatever the result the Dominions would be disappointed and disgruntled.
▪ In any event, a dissatisfied enquirer can be a disgruntled member!
▪ It had to be admitted that there was plenty for the voters to be disgruntled about.
▪ Next, the draft would make it cheaper for disgruntled shareholders to sue directors for mismanagement.
▪ Not surprisingly, there were many disgruntled drinkers and club-owners.
▪ Second, in some industries the employer may fear sabotage from disgruntled redundancy candidates.
▪ The general staff is unhappy and the squaddies disgruntled, but no more than that.
▪ The only affect on the merger plan disgruntled stockholders, if there are any, could have is apparently to demand cash.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disgruntled

past participle adjective from disgruntle.

Wiktionary
disgruntled
  1. 1 unhappy; dissatisfied 2 frustrated. v

  2. (context obsolete English) (en-past of: disgruntle)

WordNet
disgruntled

adj. in a state of sulky dissatisfaction [syn: dissatisfied]

Usage examples of "disgruntled".

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.