discontentedlyadv.
/ˌdɪskənˈtɛntᵻdli/, U.S. /ˌdɪskənˈtɛn(t)ədli/ In a discontented manner; with discontent.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > [adverb]
miscontentedly1561
discontentedly1587
malcontentedly1630
unpacifiedly1748
dissatisfiedly1805
1587 B. Rich Path-way Mil. Pract. To Rdr. sig. D For the regimentes in Italy, who knowes not how discontentedly they endure the Spanish gouernement.
1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered Concl. 47 Vnlesse they bee..discontentedly [printed discontedly] malicious, or schismatically factious.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Rom. vii. 24) We must discontentedly be contented to be exercised with sin while we are here.
1674 J. Flavell Token for Mourners Ep. Ded. sig. A5 I dare not say that ever I felt my heart discontentedly rising and swelling against God.
1720 E. Calamy Discontented Complaints prov'd Unreasonable 11 Discontentedly or impatiently to complain of the present, compar'd with former Times, is foolish.
1775 Morning Chron. 13 Sept. Some hundreds..very discontentedly walked home simple Sirs, when they expected to have had coaches called for them..in the name of Esquires.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xvi. 153 ‘They may begin, my dear,’ replied the collector, discontentedly.
1896 C. Thropp Few Little Lives iv. 17 Clasping her hands around one knee, she gazed discontentedly into space.
1920 J. Conrad Rescue (1923) iii. iii.132 The dog..growled discontentedly at the noise.
1970 I. Twersky in J. Goldin Jewish Expression 323 R. Joseph Karo,..having settled temporarily and discontentedly in Adrianople, Turkey, launched a massive literary project.
2006 K. Morton House at Riverton (2008) 141 ‘Anyway,’ she says discontentedly, ‘I'm playing Grace and I have to make the best of it.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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