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

But any compromise will be unusually difficult, because the issue seems an all-or-nothing question; simply reducing the funds would dissatisfy everyone.

From Time Magazine Archive

It will dissatisfy a good many who would otherwise remain quiet.

From The Struggle for Missouri by McElroy, John

China has hit out at the nationalisation of British Steel, saying it "firmly opposes and is strongly dissatisfied with the British government's decision".

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 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

The deal is structured to give the service flexibility and allow it to spend far less than the maximum sum if it grows dissatisfied with the drones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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

So she was dissatisfied with her trip and unconvinced of the emergency, and every line of her plain, middle-aged face showed it clearly enough during her first dinner at Hyper Base.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

In that, though, “Father Mother Sister Brother” is no doubt true enough to many a family gathering this Christmas—awkward, amusing, a bit dissatisfying, but not a disaster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025

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

This was for me an odd and largely dissatisfying episode in addition to being, at over an hour, the longest episode to date.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 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

I thought from the way you were bending down and looking at them that perhaps their appearance was dissatisfying to you.

From Idle Ideas in 1905 by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)