dissatisfactory
Example Sentences
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Touching your face can be a spontaneous or even subconscious act that some research indicates can help us deal with anxiety and discomfort, or be related to negative or dissatisfactory feelings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2022
It fits with the preconceived notion of Brazil that it would have a potentially great program, only to hinder it with a dissatisfactory commitment to nurturing it.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2016
Life has since returned to a dissatisfactory normal for most people living in public housing.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2013
"To me it has ever seemed the most dissatisfactory thing that could be imagined."
From The Firm of Girdlestone by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Irritable as my feelings were, I had always experienced something infinitely more dissatisfactory in being angry with him than with any other person.
From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Thomas Holcroft