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单词 malcontent
释义 mal·content
I. \“+\ noun
Etymology: Middle French, from malcontent, adjective
1. : a discontented person:
 a. : one who bears a grudge from a sense of grievance or thwarted ambition
  < lord of folded arms … liege of all loiterers and malcontents — Shakespeare >
  < every peevish, moody malcontent — Nicholas Rowe >
  < in the drama of the early 17th century … the malcontent is the man who has been unable to achieve an “advancement” commensurate with his abilities — H.B.Parkes >
  < malcontents … bitter and almost choking with self-pity — E.W.Griffiths >
 b. : one who is disaffected with an established order or government or in active opposition to it : rebel
  < harebrained scheme of a small group of malcontents — William Plutte >
2. archaic : discontent
 < the malcontent of Job — Sir Thomas Browne >
II. adjective
Etymology: Middle French, from Old French, from mal badly + content — more at mal-, content
: marked by a restless moody, or bitter dissatisfaction with the existing state of affairs : discontented
 < you stand pensive, as half malcontent — Shakespeare >
 < malcontent satire — New Republic >
specifically : disaffected with an established order or government
 < a malcontent group of political exiles >
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