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adjective

Definition of disgruntlingnext
as in disappointing

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disgruntling

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verb

present participle of disgruntle
1
as in infuriating
to cause to change from friendly or loving to unfriendly or uncaring an employee, disgruntled by the restaurant owner's shabby treatment, turned him in to the IRS

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as in displeasing
to make discontented a crew disgruntled by a long voyage that provided no opportunity for recreation onshore

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disgruntling
  1. disappointing
  2. angering
  3. alienating
  4. cheerless
  5. depressing
Adjective
  • However, after a disappointing two seasons, those dreams quickly faded.
    Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Bruce Brown — Incomplete 8 games, 6.0 PPG, 3.1 RPG, 1.0 APG, 40.8 field-goal percentage Brown’s tenure in Toronto has been disappointing, through little fault of his own.
    Eric Koreen, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
Definition of disappointing
Verb
  • Around 10 individuals ran onto the court waving Palestinian flags, angering hundreds of attendees from the French Jewish community cheering for the Israeli team.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 19 Dec. 2024
  • With some true detective work, Flueger quickly discovers that pigeons are trying to claim squatter rights a bit too close higher up, angering the furry felines.
    Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of angering
Verb
  • But any prolonged Israeli occupation risks alienating Syrians and providing Iran with a pretext to reactivate its anti-Israel agenda in Syria.
    Hamidreza Azizi, Foreign Affairs, 23 Dec. 2024
  • These alienating qualities don’t hold Prophecy or its characters back; the Sisters’ moral turpitude drives both the empire and the intrigue forward.
    Emma Stefansky, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2024
Definition of alienating
Adjective
  • Wedged between the cheerless skyscrapers of Third Avenue and an uncharming stretch of Second, just blocks north of the bro bars of Murray Hill, is a row of nine townhouses.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Election polls may seem cheerless, inscrutable, and wrapped in data and murky terminology.
    W. Joseph Campbell, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of cheerless
Adjective
  • The depressing part is that the smear campaign worked.
    Nicole Page, IndieWire, 6 Jan. 2025
  • In October, Lilium was scrambling for additional investments to keep the doors open and by late December the company announced that the only people still on the payroll would be handling the depressing job of liquidation.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 5 Jan. 2025
Definition of depressing
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