malcontentedadj.

1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie xii. 73 Sounds malcontented frinds did neuer rest.

1593–4 J. Sylvester tr. O. de la Nove Profit Imprisonm. 541 Murmuring 'gainst the Lord, with male-contented voyce.

c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxiii. 62 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 94 For what purpose was it..For me to fume with malecontented hart?

1599 T. Heywood 1st Pt. King Edward IV sig. A4 To him the malcontented commons flocke, From eueries part of Sussex, Kent, and Essex.

1614 T. Jackson Third Bk. Comm. Apostles Creede iii. xxxii. §3 If men male-contented with this present, may haue sweete promises of euerlasting happinesse in the life to come.

1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 39 For the better securing of his estate, against mutinous and malcontented Subiects.

1696 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) IV. 119 The restlesse attempts of the malecontented party.

a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) VII. 289 To satisfy or silence this malecontented Enquiry.

1883 E. M. Curr Recoll. Squatting Victoria xii. 119 It might have gone on giving satisfaction indefinitely, had not malcontented individuals..got attorneys..to spy out little imperfections.

1978 J. Updike Coup (1979) v. 176 A group of suspect liberals and malcontented expatriates.

1993 Arena May 102/1 The Revue was hardly something that Steely Dan, those malcontented New York misfits let loose in Hollywood Babylon, would have had much truck with.