| 单词 | mal-discontented | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasmal-discontented   Forming nouns of action (e.g. malpractice), physiological terms (e.g. malassimilation, malformation), and occasionally adjectives and verbs (e.g. malodorous, malappropriate), with the sense ‘ill’, ‘wrong’, ‘improper(ly)’. The more significant terms are entered in the dictionary as main entries. Ad hoc formations with this prefix include:  mal-accident,  mal-application,  mal-appointment,  mal-association,  mal-cultivation,  mal-direction,  mal-feeling,  mal-hygiene,  mal-identification,  mal-institution,  mal-instruction,  mal-operation,  mal-performance,  mal-publication,  mal-reasoning,  mal-use,  mal-volition;  mal-conceited,  mal-created,  mal-discontented,  mal-fortunate,  mal-shapen adjs. ΚΠ 1510    R. Copland in  tr.  Kynge Appolyn of Thyre Prol. sig. Aiv  				In tyme past hystoriagraphes dayly wrote..of..aduentures and fortunes happy and malfortunate. 1608    H. Clapham Errour Left Hand 29  				Master Malcontent, me thinks you are malconceited. 1679    in  Rec. Colony Rhode Island 		(1858)	 III. 288  				Some male-discontented persons. 1714    J. Fortescue-Aland Fortescue's Governance of Eng. Pref. 13  				It is owing to Passion and Interest, and not to the Male-Institution of the Law. 1715    M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 10  				The Expression and Malepublication of the respective criminal Contents of such Scandalous Libels. 1799    R. Warner Walk 		(1800)	 6  				There are no limits to the vicious conceptions, malassociations, and wild incongruities of false taste. 1803    in  Spirit of Public Jrnls. 		(1804)	 7 22  				If, however, it so happens that either mal-accident or your own discretion..has prevented [etc.]. 1808    E. S. Barrett Miss-led General 125  				These malappointments took place..when the army had ceased to be a matter of mere parade. 1822    E. Nathan Langreath I. 81  				This maloperation of the affections..may be best prevented..by that wholesome species of dissipation. 1824    Examiner 423/2  				A man I never saw, and therefore could have no malfeeling towards. 1833    J. S. Mill in  Monthly Repos. 7 723  				The question often is, what is least prejudicial to the intellect, uncultivation or malcultivation. 1839    Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 45 812  				Fearful gropings to imitate what they render malcreated and hideous. 1841    T. P. Thompson Exercises 		(1842)	 VI. 161  				That mal-reasoning which makes men expect [etc.]. 1843    Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 4  i. 192  				The abuse, however, or rather mal-use, of an article is no argument against it. a1849    E. A. Poe Wks. 		(1864)	 III. 369  				The heart is stirred, and the mind does not lament its mal-instruction. 1855    F. P. Cobbe Ess. Intuitive Morals I. 155  				He proceeds..to guard against its malapplication by arguing that [etc.]. 1870    O. W. Holmes Mechanism in  Pages from Old Vol. 		(1893)	 305  				So to rate the gravity of a mal-volition by its consequences is the merest sensational materialism. 1887    Harper's Mag. May 952  				Beggars abound, hideously malshapen. 1888    T. Gill in  Amer. Naturalist Oct. 926  				Incredible as such a malidentification on the part of Pictet must appear. 1898    T. C. Allbutt et al.  Syst. Med. V. 614  				Intensified and fostered by conditions of malhygiene. 1899    T. C. Allbutt et al.  Syst. Med. VII. 116  				The maldirection of movement is much increased when the aid of the sight is denied. 1938    R. G. Collingwood Princ. Art xii. 283  				It is the malperformance of the act which converts what is merely psychic (impression) into what is conscious (idea). 1964    M. Critchley Developmental Dyslexia ix. 60  				Dyslexics show only a mild tendency towards a malperformance of higher order right-left orientation exercises. < as lemmas | 
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