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dissatisfaction

[dis-sat-is-fak-shuhn, dis-sat-] / ˌdɪs sæt ɪsˈfæk ʃən, dɪsˌsæt- /


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There is little margin for error or customer dissatisfaction, as disgruntled viewers will tune out.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 19, 2026

Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old Democratic socialist, capitalized on the state’s leftward turn and voter dissatisfaction with incumbents.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

As they bicker and jab, their quiet dissatisfaction with their lives stops being so quiet.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 25, 2026

It added: "Consequently, the federation will formally express its dissatisfaction and lodge an official complaint with Fifa through the appropriate channels."

From BBC Jun. 19, 2026

It was one of those commitments that occurred because of Bloom’s deep-seated dissatisfaction, which often made him profoundly uncomfortable with a lifestyle that seemed much too inherently selfish.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

But “The Book of Ayn” is rife with dissatisfactions — to its credit — and with self-aware jokes and serious questions about self-awareness.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 14, 2023

But Clare’s sudden presence begins to raise a sense of dangerous possibility within Irene — one of unacknowledged desires and dissatisfactions.

From New York Times Oct. 20, 2021

So The Mars Trilogy comes out of my dissatisfactions with the constraints I had set on myself with Pacific Edge.

From Slate Feb. 6, 2020

Haemin is especially eloquent on life’s smaller dissatisfactions, and how they can sometimes be trickier to deal with than the bigger, more dramatic ones.

From The Guardian Jan. 12, 2019

They say, in another place, that there is no ground for the dissatisfactions and difficulties of the weavers: "that they are owing to the delâls, whose aim it is to be employed."

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) by Edmund Burke




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