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English
Etymology
From discontent + -ful.
Adjective
discontentful (comparative more discontentful, superlative most discontentful)
- Full of discontent.
1664 March 8 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “February 27th, 1663–1664”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys , volume (please specify |volume=I to X), London: George Bell & Sons ; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893–1899, →OCLC:Thence home and to the office, where late, and so home to supper and to bed, and had a very pleasing and condescending answer from my poor father to-day in answer to my angry discontentful letter to him the other day, which pleases me mightily.
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