dissatisfy

Success is, eventually, actually reading your unread books, or at least holding on to them long enough that they have the chance to satisfy, dissatisfy or dement you.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 7, 2019

The more time it takes to do something, the higher your labor costs, and the more potential there is to dissatisfy the customer.

From Inc ● Oct. 22, 2012

This workplace is an instance of individuals caught in the grip of unproductive systems, that systematically dispirit the staff, dissatisfy the clients and make the firm less productive than it could be.

From Forbes ● Jun. 23, 2011

The court had accomplished the near impossible: it had handed down a decision that would partly satisfy most people and strongly dissatisfy only a few.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lord John’s speech was admirable, and so skilful, that it satisfied his friends, his foes, and did not dissatisfy the Radicals.

From The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) by Charles Greville

Confused and dissatisfied with local treatment plans, Lynette sought a second opinion from The Royal Marsden Hospital in London which recommended genetic testing and platinum chemotherapy – something not offered on the NHS at home.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

In an effort to persuade voters who are dissatisfied with the status quo, Hilton bought a full-page ad in the Wednesday editions of the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

It would also make the justices safer in the long run from a public increasingly dissatisfied with their arbitrary secrecy.

From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026

"They told me they are really dissatisfied with all the existing political parties, because nobody listens to them," he said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

Let us be dissatisfied until slums are cast into the junk heaps of history, and every family will live in a decent, sanitary home.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

But that won’t keep low job growth from feeling dissatisfying for many Americans, and challenging for investors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Anna’s narrative drift takes her to Athens, leading to an ending some may find perfectly natural and others dissatisfying.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023

Even if A.I. could make changes to movies and books that you personally find dissatisfying, part of those works’ value lies in the shared conversations they inspire—conversations that require opinions about common, historically situated texts.

From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2023

Jaakko can’t help referencing “Fargo” even as he’s being threatened, but rather than follow that cue and dial up the whimsy, the plot eventually thins out into dissatisfying contrivances.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023

The widespread thoughtless indifference to his social service has, at least in the oldest portions of the nation, given him an irritating social skepticism and driven him into a dissatisfying industrial isolation.

From Rural Problems of Today by Ernest R. (Ernest Rutherford) Groves