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dissatisfactory

[dis-sat-is-fak-tuh-ree, dis-sat-] / ˌdɪs sæt ɪsˈfæk tə ri, dɪsˌsæt- /


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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

My Dear Charles,—This is very evasive and dissatisfactory.

From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Rowland Edmund Prothero, Baron Ernle

Indeed, with Rudolph Musgrave living had always been a vaguely dissatisfactory business, a hand-to-mouth proceeding which he had scrambled through, as he saw now, without any worthy aim or even any intelligible purpose.

From The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations by James Branch Cabell


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