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

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 Holcroft, Thomas

The principal value of Maittaire's Annales Typographici consists in a great deal of curious matter detailed in the notes; but the absence of the "lucidus ordo" renders the perusal of these fatiguing and dissatisfactory.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall