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How to use the word disgruntled in a Sentence?

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I remember being woken up on a Saturday morning to go move someone's couch, we would support her but we were very disgruntled about it.

Meymuna Hussein-Cattan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There have been fledgling groups gathering since 8th of August but it escalated and got much worse today. More people joined in huge numbers and there were clashes with police and there was violence on both sides. Some people lost their lives but I don't know the count, the economic situation in the country is really bad, the government says it is due to Ukraine and coronavirus crisis but to date youth unemployment is very high. There are a lot of disgruntled young people in the country.

Morris Marah

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This school district adopted policies that make it easy for any disgruntled community member to force any book from the shelves for any reason, this plays right into the hands of those with an agenda to rid our public schools of viewpoints belonging to anyone other than straight, white men.

Tony Rothert

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is extremely disappointing that two disgruntled former staffers have weaponized the ethics process for political and personal purposes.

Cassandra Sebastian

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We know a couple of facts. We know there was a live round in a box of dummy rounds that shouldn’t have been there. At least one round. We have people who walked off set because they were disgruntled. We have a timeline of approximately 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. that day in which the firearms at that time were unattended, so there was opportunity to tamper with this scene and yes, we’re looking at that possibility.

Jason Bowles

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There are still a few people who are disgruntled about the past, but I would think that if you talk to the vast majority of our franchisees, they'd say we've had a hell of a six-month run.

John Chidsey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is unfortunate that today’s milestone of Houston Methodist becoming the safest hospital system in the country is being overshadowed by a few disgruntled employees.

Marc Boom

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He's a disgruntled employee, i'm loathed to criticize people, even though I have vehement disagreements with them. We're going to be filing an answer. I'll be represented by Representative Lamborn House lawyers. And they feel that their case is extremely weak and that we will prevail. So we'll be, when we file the answer, that'll be another opportunity maybe to get into more details.

Representative Lamborn

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The only thing worse than a disgruntled former employee is a disgruntled former talk show host, for 11 years Sharon has been kind, collegial and friendly with her hosts as evidenced by throwing them parties, inviting them to her home in the UK and other gestures of kindness too many to name. Sharon is disappointed but unfazed and hardly surprised by the lies, the recasting of history and the bitterness coming out at this moment.

Leah Remini

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In many ways, Chuck Schumer is made for this moment, managing an effective one-seat majority in The Senate is really hard and The Senate requires you to know what every single member of your caucus is thinking on an hour-to-hour basis, because one disgruntled member can potentially upset your agenda.

Chris Murphy

Found on CNN
3 years ago

These allegations are an example of precisely what's wrong with Washington -- a junior-level disgruntled former detailee, with whom Ambassador O'Brien had almost no interaction, can launch baseless attacks for partisan purposes, yevgeny Vindman is no longer at National Security Council after Yevgeny Vindman detail was ended following poor performance, as revealed in the House Democrats' letter. Yevgeny Vindman now attempts to retaliate against Yevgeny Vindman former supervisors for providing an accurate assessment of Yevgeny Vindman performance.

Alyssa Farah

Found on CNN
3 years ago

President Trump has the support of a record number of Republicans and leads a united party, any efforts by disgruntled former Republicans is doomed to fail.

Tim Murtaugh

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

If people are that unhappy, you shouldn't work, to me, he's a disgruntled guy and I hadn't heard great thingns about him.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This is a group of disgruntled GOP consultants who are no longer Republicans and are not relevant in this election, the President is out front leading the nation in the battle against the Coronavirus and these baseless attacks do not resonate with the American people.

Tim Murtaugh

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Instead of telling the truth about all the good President President Donald Trump and President Donald Trump administration are doing to make America safe and prosperous, Manigault Newman book is riddled with lies and false accusations, it's sad that a disgruntled former White House employee is trying to profit off these false attacks, and even worse that the media would now give her a platform, after not taking her seriously when she had only positive things to say about the President during her time in the administration.

Sarah Sanders on Friday

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I am aware that a former disgruntled assistant of mine has made a private post implying that I had acted in an improper manner toward her, i adamantly and vehemently reject and deny any and all implication and allegation that I have ever engaged in any improper behavior toward this person or any other persons I have ever worked with.

Jeffrey Tambor

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

When Jose finishes at a club there is a pattern where he falls out with players, gets disgruntled and the team dips, i can't see him staying for too long at United - maybe two or three years seems to be his shelf life at a club - but as long as he brings success United fans won't be unhappy.

Phil Neville

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

These claims from a disgruntled former part-time employee are without merit, she is in violation of her contract and continues to disparage the campaign with falsehoods, which, in addition to doing a terrible job, is why she was terminated weeks ago.

Hope Hicks

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is a civilizational struggle between the values of freedom and liberty, and radical Islamic terror. What happened in Paris could happen here, there is no middle ground. These aren't disgruntled or disempowered people. These are radical terrorists who want to kill us, because we let women drive, because we let girls go to school.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There will be a small faction of disgruntled conservative Republican who won’t like it, but they ... they won’t be the majority in a vote.

David Melcher

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We had to deal with that a lot in the Senate race, and there were employees that were disgruntled that would say bad things, it's a perennial challenge for business candidates to run for any office ... The fact is, business people have to make tough decisions.

Marty Wilson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We're not doing this willy-nilly because we're a bunch of disgruntled soccer moms, this policy is harmful to our society, to our schools, to our teachers and to our children.

Morna McDermott

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The world saw an African-American man in Staten Island die and people are confused, disgruntled and angry.

Mario Cuomo

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

George Carlin

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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