All 3 Uses of
disgruntled
in
The Crying of Lot 49
- The Peter Pinguid Society was named for the commanding officer of the Confederate man-of-war Disgruntled, who early in 1863 had set sail with the daring plan of bringing a task force around Cape Horn to attack San Francisco and thus open a second front in the War for Southern Independence.†
Chpt 3
- Storms and scurvy managed to destroy or discourage every vessel in this armada except the game little Disgruntled, which showed up off the coast of California about a year later.†
Chpt 3
- forwarded in April to the General-Adjutant in St. Petersburg and now somewhere in the Krasnyi Arkhiv, it was the Disgruntled that had vanished during the night.†
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Definition:
dissatisfied - typically unhappy and annoyed