Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not content, or ill content; discontented.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Discontent.

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  • adjective obsolete discontent

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Examples

  • Because it sure looks as though she has feelings of anger and miscontent against gays, desires to be perceived as more attractive and important than others and exhibits self-images that induce sexual thoughts.

    Think Progress » Miss Beverly Hills tries to one-up Carrie Prejean, says it’s divine law that gays be put to death. 2010

  • Reports are now abundant of such fraud and miscontent.

    Chavismo dim light bulbs 2005

  • Reports are now abundant of such fraud and miscontent.

    04/17/2005 - 04/24/2005 2005

  • "To buy put the miscontent Terrans will be an amply heavy lift."

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • "To buy put the miscontent Terrans will be an amply heavy lift."

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • The lady, beholding this and seeing herself alone, fell into that same appetite which had gotten hold of her nuns, and arousing Masetto, carried him to her chamber, where, to the no small miscontent of the others, who complained loudly that the gardener came not to till the hortyard, she kept him several days, proving and reproving that delight which she had erst been wont to blame in others.

    The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

  • And to the ende that I may not be vtterly ingrate, and that you doe not departe from me, altogether miscontent, I doe promise you nowe that from henceforth, you shall inioye the first place of my harte, whereunto another shall neuer enter: if so be you can be content with honest amitie, wherein you shall finde me in time to come so liberall, in all that whiche honestie shall permitte, that I am contente to forgoe the name of a presumptuous or cruell Damosell for your sake.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • But or he came so far forward, Arnold bishop of Liege had been with the king and had greatly entreated for the duke of Juliers, that the king should not be miscontent with him, though he were father to the duke of Gueldres; for he excused him of the defiance that his son had made, affirming how it was not by his knowledge nor consent, wherefore, he said, it were pity that the father should bear the default of the son.

    Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

  • But or he came so far forward, Arnold bishop of Liege had been with the king and had greatly entreated for the duke of Juliers, that the king should not be miscontent with him, though he were father to the duke of Gueldres; for he excused him of the defiance that his son had made, affirming how it was not by his knowledge nor consent, wherefore, he said, it were pity that the father should bear the default of the son.

    The Battle of Otterburn. How the Scots Departed and Carried with Them the Earl Douglas Dead, and Buried Him in the Abbey of Melrose; and How Sir Archambault Douglas and His Company Departed from before Carlisle and Returned into Scotland 1909

  • But or he came so far forward, Arnold bishop of Liege had been with the king and had greatly entreated for the duke of Juliers, that the king should not be miscontent with him, though he were father to the duke of Gueldres; for he excused him of the defiance that his son had made, affirming how it was not by his knowledge nor consent, wherefore, he said, it were pity that the father should bear the default of the son.

    The Chronicles of Froissart 1523

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