How to Use malcontent in a Sentence

malcontent

noun

• He complained so much that he got a reputation for being a malcontent.
• The Stranger Things malcontents might observe that the show tends to do the same thing over and over again and that the formula is getting stale.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 4 July 2019
• But Brown was a malcontent who rarely started during two years with the Raiders.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2021
• By night, the pampered Midge turns into a malcontent, seething against the confines of her fairy-tale life.
  — Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2018
• The case has gripped Belgium and posed wider questions about how the country deals with malcontent in its armed forces.
  — NBC News, 24 May 2021
• Thomas was one of the malcontents Belichick cleaned out after the 2009 season ended in a wild-card round rout by the Ravens.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2020
• Deadpool and his foul-mouthed crew of misfits and malcontents have taken down the Avengers.
  — Fox News, 20 May 2018
• The most acute concern is his late father, Bert Goldberg, who was a wall of rage and malcontent.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
• The Phillies released Thomas, but local fans took his side in the dispute, and Mr. Allen was branded a malcontent.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020
• Eventually, the three were identified as malcontents who hoped to launch a war against the law, then hide out in the rugged desert and canyons west of Cortez.
  — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2017
• As usual, Koepka, golf’s all-world malcontent, used the right words to take aim at the wrong target, blaming the media rather than the storm itself.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2022
• His hold will be weak, given a single malcontent can call for his removal—and be guaranteed a vote on it.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 5 Jan. 2023
• Rondo and Cousins have been viewed as malcontents at various times in their careers.
  — Ron Higgins, NOLA.com, 9 May 2018
• Elsewhere, Loskutoff names the grievances of his malcontents.
  — Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 21 May 2018
• As a malcontent, Saul tends toward a policy of not so much getting mad about anything in particular as of getting even across the board.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2020
• Get our daily newsletter Sebastián Piñera, Chile’s centre-right president, at first took a tough line with the malcontents.
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
• Does Milwaukee remember Yount as an enigma or even a malcontent, instead of the most beloved athlete in the city's history?
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2020
• Whiteside brings to Portland a reputation for being a malcontent who, at times, has been more focused on himself than his team.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive.com, 11 July 2019
• Turns out the measurement on speculating when Irving would begin his moody malcontent routine should not have been in years, or even months.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2019
• The extent of Google’s employee rebellion is hard to measure—the company has tried to portray it as the work of a handful of malcontents from the company’s junior ranks.
  — Ryan Gallagher, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2019
• The current dour mood emboldens executives to get rid of everyone who is deemed to be a low-performer or malcontent.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• Wiseman was training us early on to seek solidarity, yes, but also to own our malcontent, and cut out its roots.
  — Bridget Read, Vogue, 23 Apr. 2018
• Her latest film shows her taking on another malcontent hoping to break free from the tightly corseted bonds of a mannequin lifestyle.
  — Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2022
• To hear President Trump’s supporters tell it, there is a secret army of malcontents lurking deep within the bowels of government whose goal is to drive Trump from office.
  — Dina Temple-Raston, Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2020
• The contentious exits of Smith and Williams were written off as the shedding of salaries and malcontents, but the decision to rescind Norman’s franchise tag was Gettleman’s biggest blunder.
  — Joseph Person, charlotteobserver, 17 July 2017
• Paddy wagons will be filled with Hawaiian shirt-wearing malcontents as the Jazz Fest breaks all previous attendance records.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 1 May 2018
• More blah-blah-blah noise could be made on Saturday, when another small group of malcontents find out once and for all that FC Cincinnati isn't going to freely pass out seven-figure checks all around the neighborhood.
  — Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 12 May 2018
• Once again, a small group of far-right malcontents had succeeded, if nothing else, in fomenting conflict and enlisting state power in that effort.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 4 Sep. 2019
• There is less interest these days in the existential trials of the uprooted; attention has shifted to those malcontents who, we are told, have become strangers in their own land.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 6 June 2019
• Punk turned post-punk — against Margaret Thatcher’s establishment yet also skeptical about British socialist fashion that could not save a malcontent’s life.
  — Armond White, National Review, 14 June 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024