Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make discontented.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To disappoint; disconcert; chagrin; disgust; offend; throw into a state of sulky dissatisfaction: usually in the participial adjective disgruntled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb colloq. To dissatisfy; to disaffect; to anger.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make
discontent orcross ; to cause being in a badtemper .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb put into a bad mood or into bad humour
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Your problem with the word disgruntle the problem being that it seems to mean pretty much the same as gruntle doesn’t take into consideration the pig factor.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Your problem with the word disgruntle the problem being that it seems to mean pretty much the same as gruntle doesn’t take into consideration the pig factor.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Your problem with the word disgruntle the problem being that it seems to mean pretty much the same as gruntle doesn’t take into consideration the pig factor.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Your problem with the word disgruntle the problem being that it seems to mean pretty much the same as gruntle doesn’t take into consideration the pig factor.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Her shoes were in the 'disgruntle' condition we so often find on farms, that, to give her a level bearing until I should call another day with a farrier to help me to pack the foot up in the old-fashioned way, I had the remaining shoes pulled off.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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This will disgruntle and confuse the Cultural Warriors -- imagine them celebrating the ACLU -- and it may help us avoid the long and expensive process of deciding who the genuine Christian might be, and the interesting problem of how to dispose of the non-genuine articles.
Daniel Krotz: Separating The Sheep From The Goats Daniel Krotz 2011
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She talks from notes written on her hand, and says things that disgruntle people like you want to hear.
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I invited those who expressed their disgruntle-hood Sunday in the postgame chat I do weekly to join me on the Kansas City Chiefs' extremely comfy, low-mileage bandwagon.
Peyton Manning, Cliff Lee and Carl Crawford, Red Sox vs. Yankees, Jets vs. Giants (almost) Cindy Boren 2010
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What you all should now focus on is uniting behind OUR party's nominee and not falling into the hole that John McCain has dug for the disgruntle Clintonites.
Blitzer: As the race comes into focus, the gloves come off 2008
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The only pro-McCain posts are coming from disgruntle Hillary supporters.
McCain slams Obama over Middle East at pro-Israel forum 2008
derumi commented on the word disgruntle
The prefix "dis" for this word means "very".
July 24, 2009