Crossword-Solution: DISCONTENTMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Discontentment | n. | The state of being discontented; uneasiness; inquietude. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “DISCONTENTMENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| COMFORT (ant.) | 11 answers |
| A LONGING FOR SOMETHING BETTER THAN THE PRESENT SITUATION | 11 answers |
| discontent | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DISCONTENTMENT (5)
This envy, being in the Latin word invidia, goeth in the modern language, by the name of discontentment; of which we shall speak, in handling sedition.
And so much of public envy or discontentment, and the difference thereof from private envy, which was handled in the first place.
Factious followers are worse to be liked, which follow not upon affection to him, with whom they range themselves, but upon discontentment conceived against some other; whereupon commonly ensueth that ill intelligence, that we many times see between great personages.
She had no courage, no wit, no diligence, nothing that she could distinguish save discontentment like a corroding acid, and she went so far in sincerity as with a curious shift of feeling to pity the man plighted to her.
Sir Willoughby had guessed the person who inspired his friend Horace to plead so pertinaciously and inopportunely for the man Flitch: and it had not improved his temper or the pose of his rejoinders; he had winced under the contrast of his friend Horace's easy, laughing, sparkling, musical air and manner with his own stiffness; and he had seen Clara's face, too, scanning the contrast--he was fatally driven to exaggerate his discontentment, which did not restore him to serenity.
Quotes with DISCONTENTMENT (3)
How can one explain this trend towards a more colorless and shallow life? Well, the work was easier, if less healthy, and it brought in more money, more leisure, and perhaps more entertainment. A day in the country is long and hard. And yet the fruits of their present life were worthless compared to a single coin of their former life: a rest in the evening and a rural festivity. That they no longer knew the old kind of happiness was obvious from the discontentment which sprea…
The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land reduced us to slavery. I loathed them as being the meanest as well as the most wicked of men. As I read and contemplated the subject, behold! that very discontentment which Master Hugh had predicted would follow my learning to read had alr…
The matter of sedition is of two kinds: much poverty and much discontentment.... The causes and motives of sedition are, innovation in religion; taxes; alteration of laws and customs; breaking of privileges; general oppression; advancement of unworthy persons, strangers; dearths; disbanded soldiers; factions grown desperate; and whatsoever in offending people joineth them in a common cause.' The cue of every leader, of course, is to divide his enemies and to unite his friends…