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mal·con·tents

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  1. malcontents

    A malcontent is an early modern dramatic character type.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of malcontents in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of malcontents in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of malcontents in a Sentence

  1. H. G. Wells:

    ... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the new world order ... and will die protesting it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

  2. Salvador Dali:

    The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

  3. William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 3:

    Thou art the Mars of malcontents.

  4. James R. Cook:

    Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers.

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