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Definition of Disgruntling
1. disgruntle [v] - See also: disgruntle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disgruntling
Literary usage of Disgruntling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"There is a possibility of disgruntling the French by indulging overmuch in the
speculations about peace-aims which are beginning to be current in ..."
2. English Lands, Letters and Kings by Donald Grant Mitchell (1889)
"At about the same period he accepted office as Justice of the Peace—thereby still
further disgruntling his aristocratic Denbigh cousins. ..."
3. The Works of Donald G. Mitchell by Donald Grant Mitchell (1907)
"At about the same period he accepted office as Justice of the Peace—thereby still
further disgruntling his aristocratic Denbigh cousins. ..."
4. History of the Express Business: Including the Origin of the Railway System by Alexander Lovett Stimson (1881)
"... with the rush of freights as the present, their managers will be so egregiously
foolish as to meditate the disgruntling of .the Express companies. ..."
5. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1887)
"These wretched specimens of what a printer can do in the way of slaughtering an
editor are peculiarly disgruntling in the present instance, where all else ..."
6. Library Work by Anna Lorraine Gutherie (1906)
"... care never to get caught that way again, and you will have lost more to the
library by disgruntling the guarantor than by standing the loss of the book. ..."
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