MALCONTENTS Synonyms: 72 Similar and Opposite Words

malcontents

noun

plural of malcontent

as in grumps

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happy campers

as in discontents

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Noun

One employee pulls out crabs with a small net before letting a customer take their pick of the lot.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
Advertisement On the other side of the continent, in 2020, the first green crabs were detected on Haida Gwaii, an archipelago off the coast of British Columbia.

— Victoria Malloy, Time, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of crabs

Noun

Two common types of plastic — polyethylene and polypropylene, used widely to make food containers, packaging, milk jugs and bottle caps — produced the most hydroxyl radicals detected by the researchers.

— Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
The riots and looting across France might have been supported by leftist radicals, but National Rally leader Marine Le Pen stands to be the greatest beneficiary when the dust eventually settles.

— Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of radicals

Noun

The story follows a rag-tag group of misanthropes who attempt to rob jewels from the Vatican.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 10 Mar. 2026
Clavicular is the poster child—though by no means the most extreme representative—of the looksmaxxing movement, the latest permutation of an ideology developed by too online misogynist misanthropes in the twenty-tens.

— Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2026

Definition of misanthropes

Noun

Williams led the Bears to an NFC North title and a playoff victory last season, but some cynics think the Bears are due for a regression this season.

— Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
That the earnestness the genre requires galls us cynics, who love to hide in our books, away from all those pesky bodies in the first place?

— Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of cynics

Noun

The situation on the ground is unpredictable because the students, communists, anarchists, anti-Israel and other protesters that have collaborated to make France a worse place to visit in recent days might do something no one expects.

— Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026
The effects of these publications were hardly only theoretical, as Italian anarchists exerted a powerful influence on labor strikes.

— Ed Simon, JSTOR Daily, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of anarchists

Noun

Democrats would be wise to ignore the naysayers and take the win.

— Editorial Board, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2026
Perhaps if it had been marketed as a quirky arthouse film, critical expectations might have been tempered and the naysayers’ assessments a bit less savage.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of naysayers

Noun

Historically, each president's detractors have seen midterms as an opportunity, while his supporters have often been complacent — or at least less motivated.

— Ron Elving, NPR, 24 Oct. 2026
With support from Jeff Yass, a Pennsylvania hedge-fund billionaire who is committed to school vouchers, Abbott got detractors voted out of office.

— Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of detractors

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