How To Use Disgruntled In A Sentence

Then they would disband the defeated regime's army, turning hundreds of thousands of trained soldiers into disgruntled potential insurgents.
Fielding the complaints of disgruntled fans is nothing new to Liverpool coach Rafa Benitez.
It was the desperate act of a disgruntled former city employee who was refused his old job back.
A solitary disgruntled staff officer accompanied Lohengrin back to his hotel, asking him what he did want, receiving no reply. LOHENGRIN
The rich do pay their way, you disgruntled old bigot. The Sun

O'Mara, a disgruntled bear of a man, contends that the case rests entirely on the credibility of Hearst, which is shaky at best.
He says that he became involved only because he had been approached by so many disgruntled investors. Times, Sunday Times
British voters were disgruntled but not, it transpired, disengaged. Times, Sunday Times
The second instalment, thankfully, managed to appease some disgruntled fans. The Sun
He could face some disgruntled shareholders. Times, Sunday Times
And disgruntled fans questioned the manager and members of the board on where all the money was going. The Sun
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled. Times, Sunday Times
The tanner was a disgruntled man; he believed himself entitled to be a Nineteener, but he couldn't get recognition. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories
A disgruntled former employee is being blamed for the explosion.
He had the disgruntled air of a writer whinging over a bad review.
You need only one or two disgruntled patients to post derogatory comments to damage your reputation and that of your practice. Times, Sunday Times
Disease is disgruntled , resemble basking in damp - dry fade aubergine.
Some of those currently disgruntled may never get gruntled.
Disgruntled employees recently called for his resignation.
I suspect the sniping is all being orchestrated by one disgruntled driver. The Volokh Conspiracy » Oklahoma House of Representatives Proposes Ban on Use of Foreign Law in Oklahoma Courts
And as much as I wanted her to be a disgruntled employee, eager to dish the dirt, she was surprisingly gruntled.
Do up brown came to mean, however, ` to do anything thoroughly, 'and it thus may be the origin of the phrase browned-off, meaning ` thoroughly disgruntled.' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 1
There will be some respite for disgruntled investors this week when the full-year results are announced. Times, Sunday Times
As a consequence, whatever the result the Dominions would be disappointed and disgruntled.
There are certain employees who will be disgruntled no matter how you try to better their role. Times, Sunday Times
The hostage taker, a disgruntled former policeman armed with an assault rifle, was killed by police during a 9-hour siege shown live on TV.
In "My Jerry Saltz Problem," a spiritedly discursive philippic in the New Criterion about the changing nature of art criticism, James Panero articulates how disgruntled print journalists and traditional art critics feel about new media such as blogs, Twitter, and Facebook. Sharon L. Butler: Jerry Saltz's Burden
Talk of £120,000 a week rightly led to disgruntled Manchester United fans showing their displeasure.
It looked like a disgruntled teenage jellyfish forced to wear a woolly hat knitted by an overprotective mother.
I was certainly not the first to be pranked this way - there are a slew of cases of angry pharmacists, disgruntled neighbors, and scorned ex-boyfriends using sites like Craigslist to recruit unwitting accomplices in their acts of revenge - I coined the term "crowdsourcing revenge" to describe the practice. Forbes.com: News
Once again, his disgruntled followers chastised him for his carelessness.
She looks like a disgruntled old man, her ears red, her scalp bald and splotchy.
If the fans are disgruntled with it, I will take that into consideration. Times, Sunday Times
Make no mistake, Feingold's motion to censure is not a foolish nuisance interrupting your busy lawmaking schedules, not an unnecessary distraction from the great work of appealing as unspecifically as possible to enough disgruntled Republicans that we can eke out a tarnished and compromised numerical victory in November. Frank Dwyer: Senators: Stand with Feingold
CJ must deal with a disgruntled General and her scene sizzles with crackerjack writing.
His demeanor, sometimes indifferent, sometimes disgruntled, works fantastically in Hud.
Disgruntled, for he'd been dozing, Scott croaked, ‘Seen what?’
If the fans are disgruntled with it, I will take that into consideration. Times, Sunday Times
How did Rhonda Byrne, proponent and chief promulgator of the Law of Attraction, end up attracting such a large number lawsuits and disgruntled former team members? Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks: What Can We Learn From The Lawsuit Against Rhonda Byrne and The Secret?
The second instalment, thankfully, managed to appease some disgruntled fans. The Sun
For some disgruntled investors, the changes are all too cosmetic. Times, Sunday Times
A disgruntled former employee is being blamed for the explosion.
So judges and magistrates are not subject to litigation from disgruntled litigants.
Randy says: geosktr: The disgusting speculation from Bloomberg, the fake Republican, about this being a disgruntled health care takeover opponent is a great example about how badly the left wants to provoke the tea partiers to do something — anything — that they can use to tar them with, given that even lying US congressmen didn’t work outwell.’ The Volokh Conspiracy » Faisal Shahzad Allegedly Admits to Attempted Times Square Bombing
The salaries of council managers came under the spotlight as municipal workers went on strike over pay and communities disgruntled by poor service delivery protested in many places.
He is then left with a disgruntled deputy chairman with a large shareholding. Times, Sunday Times
A good reputation can be severely dented by a dissatisfied cleaner or by a disgruntled customer.
We have not fallen from grace or lost all sense of decency, as some disgruntled tribunes of the people would have you believe.
The script is peppered with the sort of bickering and snipes you hear from those disgruntled married couples you unfortunately find yourself seated with on cruises.
Disease is disgruntled , resemble basking in damp - dry fade aubergine.
The disgruntled butler uses the soup tureen as a pissoir.
Yet it would be sad if he were driven to quit a valuable asset in America just to appease disgruntled shareholders. Times, Sunday Times
A good student will show the examiner an overall knowledge of the area and be able to put the law in perspective when delineating the options available to the disgruntled buyer.
The haplessly inept former Alaska governor and VP candidate is a media hot ticket item; a multi-millionaire; and a rallying point for millions of Christian fundamentalist, rightside zanies and disgruntled GOP conservatives who detest Obama's policies. Earl Ofari Hutchinson: The Beck Bash Has Worked Wonders -- for Beck
Sources in the banking industry have leaked the following letter to us, reportedly sent to a bank in the United States by a client who was, in the words of the poet, if not disgruntled, then certainly far from gruntled.
The long term result is incompetent captains, whose poor leadership creates disgruntled soldiers and NCOs who resign or do not re-enlist.
No doubt she will immediately begin calling attention to and "disrobing" Obama's about-face on those core left-wing issues ... in addition to aggressively courting the disgruntled Obama-primary-voters who voice their discontent of the presumptive Democratic nominee (daily and by the thousands) where it counts most: Bloggersville. McKinney Poised to Challenge Obama For Left-Wing and Black Voters
Such befuddlement has been a feature of his presidency, which began in 2006. Disgruntled administrators lament that "only a handful of people" ever know what is going on.
Still, the Union Square staple serves up decent inexpensive food, and we had just arrived in time to see disgruntled chess players, skaters skipping class at NYU and that woman who practically lives in the park selling stalagmite candle holders scatter to the pounding rhythm of the sudden monsoon. Derek Beres: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude
But the requirements on bosses to show that they have dealt fairly with disgruntled employees have become absurdly onerous. Times, Sunday Times
The second instalment, thankfully, managed to appease some disgruntled fans. The Sun
It's inevitable that there will be the occasional disgruntled customer.
No farmer can therefore afford to carry workers who are disgruntled or who have no identification with the aims of the enterprise.
Disgruntled and angry, Michelangelo gave the Leda and its cartoon to his pupil Antonio Mini, who took both images to France.
The disgusting speculation from Bloomberg, the fake Republican, about this being a disgruntled health care takeover opponent is a great example about how badly the left wants to provoke the tea partiers to do something — anything — that they can use to tar them with, given that even lying US congressmen didn’t work outwell. The Volokh Conspiracy » Faisal Shahzad Allegedly Admits to Attempted Times Square Bombing
Standing there, hearing a distant roar of London traffic, the woman next to me looks disgruntled, something to do with the poems not rhyming.
Thus disgruntled, he did not well hide his displeasure nor his attitude towards girls in common.
Cultural exiles in a world they had created, disgruntled Hawks spent their most triumphant decade not basking in their new uncontested power but grouching about how America had gone ‘soft,’ become feminized.
It marks another win for disgruntled shareholders, but does the penalty go far enough?
The late dinner disgruntled my father.
The officer was right in demanding marches that the men could march by," one disgruntled bandsman told a reporter. Making Bitter Fernet-Branca Much Easier to Swallow
The authorities covered the Eastern stand with giant mosquito nets, fearing that objects might be hurled at Australian outfielders by some of the more disgruntled elements.
But he was nevertheless disgruntled that he himself would not be donning the shirt.
The event was organized by the District Council to make amends with locals disgruntled by weeks of traffic delays caused by roadworks.
In which case I’m right there with my fellow disgruntled thirty-something in the “WTF do these kids think they’re doing?!?!?!?” school of old-fogeydom. The Font of Teriyaki… You Tell Me, How Does it Make You Feel? « Skid Roche
Much of it boils down to little more than a group of disgruntled notions sloshing around in irresolute minds.
But long-term, no one will remember the lack of snow at Cypress, the fog in Whistler, the ice resurfacer breaking down at the Oval, the failure to launch of one of the Olympic torch beams during the opening ceremony and a few disgruntled foreign journalists. Toronto Sun
The place looked a disgrace, with rubbish all over the place from the chaos the day before, and cleaners had only just started work, trying to sweep up without being bowled over by herds of disgruntled shoppers.
The pony is what we all deserve ... not just you and I and other disgruntled fans ... but the fans who don't even know that this works so much better in the long run. New FIC...Afterlife...a fix-it fic for JE
He cannot pose any more as the disgruntled outsider.
For five years, the automaker has littered the roadways with disgruntled owners.
By the end of his life he was a disgruntled and unhappy man, spending any money he had made on drink.
It seems that some disgruntled moviegoers are angry with the advertisements that now run before most movies.
A resident was so disgruntled when his rubbish was not collected that he threatened to dump it on the town hall steps.
Let us hope Spurs' lofty ambitions are not about to disappear in a similarly disgruntled fashion. The Sun
Apart from demanding a time limit for the rebuilding of a new kitchen, the disgruntled cooks sought the removal of a defective broiler and burnt stove, leaking gas lines, and for scheduled cleaning and maintenance.
Now, there are a lot of disgruntled and angry sugar farmers in a swag of marginal coalition seats.
The information was apparently stolen and copied by a disgruntled Liechtenstein bank employee. Times, Sunday Times
With language this broad, the only way a “new” terrorist threat would arise that could not be shoehorned into an existing intercept authorization is if disgruntled Walloons form the Belgian Liberation Front and begin assaulting the American Homeland with suicide waffles. In Which My Head Explodes
Let us hope Spurs' lofty ambitions are not about to disappear in a similarly disgruntled fashion. The Sun
He was disgruntled by Clara's unflattering comments about his brother.
First and foremost is the time he played Howard Payne, the maniacal disgruntled ex-cop, against Keanu Reeves in Speed (1994). How I'll Always Remember Dennis Hopper
She is no longer vibrant; she is disgruntled and unable to commit to anything or anyone.
He was disgruntled at the introduction of the smoking law, saying it took away his freedom.
With hindsight, the disgruntled shareholders would have done better if they had kept quiet. Times, Sunday Times
Those disgruntled fans were not necessarily being emotional or provocative. Times, Sunday Times
The judgment was the culmination of an investigation that began formally in 2012 and was triggered by online comments posted by a disgruntled former employee. Times, Sunday Times
The label hierarchy couldn't have been that disgruntled. Drowned In Sound // Feed
British voters were disgruntled but not, it transpired, disengaged. Times, Sunday Times
The French media kept the weathered faces of the disgruntled farmers in the press for months.
One said: 'There are a lot of disgruntled members. Times, Sunday Times
When we last left our hero, he had survived a horrible snubbing by toupeed Priceline.com pitchman and former stock-holding billionaire WILLIAM FUCKING SHATNER, only to be verbally attacked by a disgruntled Star Trek fan. WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5: September 2001 Archives
Polls suggest that extremist parties are tempting a growing proportion of disgruntled voters. Times, Sunday Times
RAB would have faced a torrent of redemption notices from disgruntled investors. Times, Sunday Times
The cluck-cluck of unnumbered generations of disgruntled mother hens?
Yet it would be sad if he were driven to quit a valuable asset in America just to appease disgruntled shareholders. Times, Sunday Times
The cattier corners of the web have been tittering over a certain chiropractor's website gone awry, courtesy of a disgruntled and allegedly unpaid web designer. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
The move has provoked public outcry from bar owners and thousands of waiters, dancers and bar girls, as well as disgruntled murmurings from late-night boozers.
Disgruntled natives of Boyle are creating a stink over a decision by Beirne's Bins to revise their pricing policy.
The young woman behind the counter in the office at Telegraph Cove down the coast was practising diplomacy on some disgruntled tourists when I arrived.
As the half wore on Abbeyleix began to tire, they looked disgruntled and they had given their all; it was not to be their day.
Officials believe the culprit is likely to be a disgruntled motorist who has been photographed by the cameras and fined.
The employees were disgruntled by their bad working conditions
No doubt their lines are clogged with thousands of other disgruntled members. Times, Sunday Times
He took the first in a series of fence-mending measures by inviting disgruntled backbenchers to participate in designing Labour's re-election strategy.
Unexpectedly a disgruntled-looking talesman in the back row held up his hand. By Advice of Counsel
I'm a big fan of metallic money, been collecting all my life, so please don't dismiss me as some disgruntled nattering numismatist of negativism. Jeffrey Shaffer: Some Change Requires Deep Pockets
A good reputation can be severely dented by a dissatisfied cleaner or by a disgruntled customer.
He has let it be known that he is prepared to engage directly with company bosses as part of any collective approach by disgruntled shareholders. Times, Sunday Times
There were also a few disgruntled newly married men, who had chosen exactly the wrong place to go on honeymoon. Times, Sunday Times
The disgruntled employees from the data management team left immediately and vowed not to return.
He was disgruntled at their absence.
Indeed, he tells how he slept with a loaded rifle after being threatened by disgruntled whites for helping to establish a Cape York outstation in the early 70s. Untruth by omission
On the eve of a bus strike that is expected to cause daily inconveniences for Lower Mainland transit users, disgruntled bus workers said the company that runs the service is treating them unfairly.
The membership was composed not as yet of the very poor but of disgruntled students and schoolteachers, and the usual artisan élite of printers, builders, and shoemakers.
I am feeling decidedly old and decrepit this morning and rather disgruntled with life and myself in general!
It also reduces potential litigation from disgruntled former employees whose complaints are all on record. Times, Sunday Times
A decapitated body, a missing tinner, a disgruntled band of miners and a mad Saxon. Archive 2007-01-01
Noble claims the blogger is a disgruntled former employee. Times, Sunday Times
As it is bosses don't want to appear out of touch or have disgruntled employees complaining about the set-up. The Sun
Nonetheless, the lawyers leading the class-action suit on behalf of disgruntled GE shareholders certainly found encouragement in Mr Paulson's words.
Letters from disillusioned and disgruntled fans were answered, phone calls returned.
Front line staff bore the brunt of the abuse that disgruntled students cast.
Investors are increasingly disgruntled by the outlandish fees they pay for what are often poor or mediocre returns. Times, Sunday Times
It was the desperate act of a disgruntled former city employee who was refused his old job back.
On land their expression – downturned mouth and prominent eyebrow ridges – coupled with a sprawling, crawling gait, is reminiscent of a disgruntled dinosaur. Country Diary: Durham city
The flat looks rather like it has been ransacked by disgruntled burglars.
The messages almost always come from disgruntled gamblers who have lost money betting on a player's matches. Times, Sunday Times
The defence portrayed her as a disgruntled employee who had reasons to lie.
He stayed with the club through thick and thin and nothing disgruntled him.
The soldiers of the Bengal Army might have been disgruntled but they were well led and were fired by a sense of purpose.
Joseph is a disgruntled Brooklyn teenager who, when he doesn't get into Columbia, fills up with ennui.
Then the band members began filtering back into the room, looking disgruntled and disheveled.
A disgruntled Gulf War veteran was arrested for the crime, which killed 169 people.
If he was expecting company than why did he look so disgruntled when he answered the door?
The messages almost always come from disgruntled gamblers who have lost money betting on a player's matches. Times, Sunday Times
Rubio's Restaurants Inc. faced a lawsuit in 2006 when a disgruntled customer felt that it was misleading people by selling lobster tacos and burritos at its Mexican restaurant chain made with langostino, a different species from the classic Maine lobster. Taco Bell Fights Beef Lawsuit With Full-Page Ads
One of Sullivan's disgruntled employees came forward to charge that the company was using its city contracts as a front to hide a nefarious plan to make illegal water hook-ups.
British voters were disgruntled but not, it transpired, disengaged. Times, Sunday Times
They left the native mechanic and a disgruntled Atlee on board and, armed with shotguns, revolvers and machetes, set out on foot into the jungle for the lake.
The President is just being insulted by the citizens, because they are disgruntled.
This may expose them to lawsuits from disgruntled investors.
While they are small in numbers relative to the whole population, with the help of wealthy patrons like the Koch Brothers and Rupert Murdoch, who gives both financial aid and a political public address system to blare their message, they have whipped up public frustration with "the system" to give elements of the disgruntled silent majority the same kind of voyeuristic vent that they get from watching Simon Cowell rip into aspiring singers. Brian Ross: Throw the Bums In!
He had many funny tales to tell from the landlady who put a bunch of asparagus in a vase thinking they were bluebells to the disgruntled guests who put a kipper in the piano by way of a leaving present in some not very good digs.
Observers say that the terror inspired by the veterans and their apparent immunity from the law has been seized on by disgruntled workers to settle scores with employers.
Last year it removed all exit penalties from the funds, making it easier for disgruntled investors to leave. Times, Sunday Times
The bankers on the Mound took the applause from disgruntled shareholders for kick-starting the process that led to the underperforming English bank being taken over by more efficient Scottish operators.
But his disgruntled neighbour filled the hole with cement and magistrates viewing CCTV footage from a camera set up by Mr Moore saw the two men armed with hosepipes facing each other across the dividing line.
I don't know how she was raised," said disgruntled queuer Nick Mendes. Chaser
The second instalment, thankfully, managed to appease some disgruntled fans. The Sun
The Villa manager stretched his unbeaten run in derbies to 14 matches but more damning statistics will have been playing on the minds of the disgruntled home supporters who drifted away today. Villa give Gérard Houllier little to cheer in draw with Birmingham
Investors are increasingly disgruntled by the outlandish fees they pay for what are often poor or mediocre returns. Times, Sunday Times
The crowd grumbled, but oblivious to their disgruntled murmurings, Yahja hugged Yeshuah.
They finished looking and left disgruntled having not found a skerrick.
Yet it would be sad if he were driven to quit a valuable asset in America just to appease disgruntled shareholders. Times, Sunday Times
City have failed to score in all four games this season and were booed off by disgruntled fans. The Sun
The information was apparently stolen and copied by a disgruntled Liechtenstein bank employee. Times, Sunday Times
And of course you have the disgruntled employee who may turn their hand to fraud. Times, Sunday Times
My passing further disgruntled gloomy herons slouching along the bank, and startled grebes and coots fussing around in ever contracting pools of water.
Yet it would be sad if he were driven to quit a valuable asset in America just to appease disgruntled shareholders. Times, Sunday Times
Second, in some industries the employer may fear sabotage from disgruntled redundancy candidates.
There are certain employees who will be disgruntled no matter how you try to better their role. Times, Sunday Times
Then came Brisbane and the reactions of disgruntled fans beamed to news channels around the world. Times, Sunday Times
No farmer can therefore afford to carry workers who are disgruntled or who have no identification with the aims of the enterprise.
Lining up for his annual dressing-down at the hands of disgruntled shareholders, he assured the faithful last week that ‘several investment possibilities’ had been investigated, but none had been deemed appropriate.
No farmer can therefore afford to carry workers who are disgruntled or who have no identification with the aims of the enterprise.
The streets of London thronged with disaffected and disgruntled youth. THE HERBALIST: Nicholas Culpeper Rebel Physician
Sadly, as with many good things, doom cryers scurried up from their disgruntled burrows, saw people having a good time, and cudgeled the party.
His eyes - disgruntled and confrontational - are also vividly painted.
The government sent a joint force of presidential guardsmen, parachute commandos and police on Friday to the country's commercial capital, Bobo Dioulasso, where disgruntled troops demanding higher wages had spent several days looting and shooting into the air. Burkinabé Soldiers Face Prosecution After Mutiny
In "My Jerry Saltz Problem," a spiritedly discursive philippic in the New Criterion about the changing nature of art criticism, James Panero articulates how disgruntled print journalists and traditional art critics feel about new media such as blogs, Twitter, and Facebook. Sharon L. Butler: Jerry Saltz's Burden
Labor activists in Hong Kong say that disgruntled workers are striking to protest against the privatization of their companies.
Tensions between poultry producers and growers were spotlighted four years ago when one disgruntled East Texas farmer took matters into his own hands.
But he was nevertheless disgruntled that he himself would not be donning the shirt.
A disgruntled former employee is being blamed for the explosion.
The move was aimed at persuading disgruntled motorists that fixed sites were not being exploited to raise revenue.
There are certain employees who will be disgruntled no matter how you try to better their role. Times, Sunday Times
Certainly, Labour frontbenchers say that once the scale of the budgetary bloodletting is made explicit, they will have their best chance yet to win back disgruntled supporters. George Osborne's talk of percentages and billions will wash over most of us
Or do we just have to invest in barbed wire and sit and wait for the anarchy to descend? on November 6, 2008 at 7: 59 am | Reply PC Disgruntled An Inspector Speaks Out « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
I am sure that Becka upon the stage was disgruntled with the lack of attention paid her. Exit the Actress
It would be a good thing to see players who are disgruntled sitting down with management.
If the fans are disgruntled with it, I will take that into consideration. Times, Sunday Times
More than 1.3 million Haitians live in squatter camps, facing disgruntled landowners and violent evictions, with no international or government plan to move or house them. Haiti Housing Prices Rival New York, LA
His message to disgruntled shareholders was that he would work unpaid until the fortunes of the company had been restored. Times, Sunday Times
No farmer can therefore afford to carry workers who are disgruntled or who have no identification with the aims of the enterprise.
JOHANNESBURG - Disgruntled minibus taxi drivers threatened to disrupt Rugby World Cup matches in South Africa's commerical capital Johannesburg. ANC Daily News Briefing
Those in power become almost indistinguishable, and the bulk of the community is left feeling alienated, disgruntled and unrepresented.
It is obvious to us that this breakaway is not in the interest of the poor or the working people ... it is in the interest of the so-called disillusioned and disgruntled ANC members," said Mantashe. ANC Daily News Briefing
Melbourne Demons have emerged as an unlikely suitor for disgruntled Brisbane Lions ruckman Mitch Clark. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
There are certain employees who will be disgruntled no matter how you try to better their role. Times, Sunday Times

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