malcontent.

A person who is dissatisfied with prevailing conditions or authority and often expresses opposition.

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Words that belong together

• a political malcontent
• a gathering of malcontents

On the page

The council dismissed every critic as a malcontent.

The malcontents agreed about the problem but not about what should replace the old arrangement.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Singular malcontent; plural malcontents. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.