How to Use disgruntled in a Sentence

disgruntled

adjective

• The disgruntled cabbie ripped the head off the Christ statue.
  — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 1 July 2024
• In the 13-minute short, a bartender tries to reason with a disgruntled veteran who placed a grenade on the counter of a gay bar.
  — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2024
• And the upside of daring to include the disgruntled naysayers is vast.
  — Ana Marie Cox, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2023
• And so Stewart, 61, the disgruntled voice of outrage and humor, found a way back to his trusty soapbox.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
• Adams has become disgruntled with the Raiders this season.
  — Vincent Frank, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
• Show up to the club looking like a disgruntled therapist and dance your cute little heart out.
  — Evelyn Bauer, Them, 4 Sep. 2024
• Back then, disgruntled Scottsdale residents could and sometimes did look him up in the phone book and call him at home.
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 8 June 2023
• The Nets have the trade assets to make a competitive offer for a disgruntled star.
  — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2024
• One of the reasons kids are sometimes disgruntled is the lack of space, hence some parents choosing to fly first class with their kiddos.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 8 Sep. 2023
• That said, French workers have some reasons to feel disgruntled.
  — Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 5 July 2024
• Many users are still disgruntled, though, and made their feelings known in July’s r/Place canvas.
  — Jay Peters, The Verge, 3 Aug. 2023
• The disgruntled Duke of Sussex was assigned to sit two rows behind his brother.
  — Brian Melley, ajc, 6 May 2023
• Before it was known for being a string of films about a disgruntled hockey player, Friday the 13th was known as a day of terror.
  — Alex Heigl, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2023
• The company is still feeling the pains of disgruntled users who were unable to get tickets to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour last year.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 8 May 2024
• The number of Mastodon users grew to 2.5 million after Elon Musk acquired Twitter last year and disgruntled users fled.
  — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
• Afterward, a few fans, disgruntled and likely full of liquid ire, threw beer cans onto the field.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 28 Jan. 2024
• Indeed, Zuckerberg is not the first tech founder to try to make the most of Twitter’s stumbles and offer a new home for its disgruntled followers.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 6 July 2023
• Some warm throw blankets and plush cushions might just persuade your disgruntled teen to help pass out candy.
  — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 31 July 2023
• But law enforcement did not think Marlene Warren's murder was the work of a disgruntled tenant or customer, and as the years passed the case grew cold.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2023
• One school of thought was that the disgruntled passenger should have alerted a flight attendant.
  — Marina Watts, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2024
• Or go trade for the disgruntled Deshaun Watson, who may work his way out of Houston this offseason.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Jan. 2021
• So this was just sort of a fantasy trade, but now that Njoku has asked to be traded, maybe teams looking to deal a disgruntled or spare player will give Berry a ring.
  — cleveland, 3 July 2020
• Lawyers hired by disgruntled investors say as much as $3.6 billion may be missing.
  — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 28 June 2021
• The bench seats resemble church pews; a Shaker-style monolith of a fireplace broods against the far wall like a disgruntled patriarch.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2023
• Ahead of the show, it was announced that Ocean’s set wouldn’t be livestreamed on the official Coachella YouTube channel like the rest of the festival, leaving many at home disgruntled.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2023
• The actor was fresh off his 1995 Oscar win for Leaving Las Vegas, yet disgruntled moviegoers didn't buy the star in the iconic role.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2023
• After more than two decades in education, she is used to dealing with disgruntled moms and dads.
  — Lauren Lumpkin The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 28 Aug. 2023
• But unlike the occasional disgruntled reader, the Left isn’t objecting to a one-off joke of ours.
  — Seth Dillon, National Review, 3 July 2021
• Footage also showed that he was hit by a bottle of coffee thrown by a disgruntled fan, before Yoo was led away, unhurt, by bodyguards.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 25 May 2023
• Some of the threats have come from disgruntled voters, but others have been traced to foreign countries trying to sow chaos and exploit the resulting divisiveness.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Nov 2024