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dissatisfaction

[dis-sat-is-fak-shuhn, dis-sat-] / ˌdɪs sæt ɪsˈfæk ʃən, dɪsˌsæt- /


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There is little margin for error or customer dissatisfaction, as disgruntled viewers will tune out.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 19, 2026

Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old Democratic socialist, capitalized on the state’s leftward turn and voter dissatisfaction with incumbents.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

As frustration grew, airport authorities stepped in "to maintain orderly operations" after "a number of passengers expressed their dissatisfaction", the airport told the BBC.

From BBC Jun. 17, 2026

He said one of the most common sentiments he hears from voters whose doors he knocks on is broad dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party.

From Salon Jun. 4, 2026

It was one of those commitments that occurred because of Bloom’s deep-seated dissatisfaction, which often made him profoundly uncomfortable with a lifestyle that seemed much too inherently selfish.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

But “The Book of Ayn” is rife with dissatisfactions — to its credit — and with self-aware jokes and serious questions about self-awareness.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 14, 2023

Are employees not telling their managers the truth about their dissatisfactions?

From New York Times Jan. 30, 2023

So The Mars Trilogy comes out of my dissatisfactions with the constraints I had set on myself with Pacific Edge.

From Slate Feb. 6, 2020

Haemin is especially eloquent on life’s smaller dissatisfactions, and how they can sometimes be trickier to deal with than the bigger, more dramatic ones.

From The Guardian Jan. 12, 2019

But from those very failures, those dissatisfactions, the ideal of the Fourth Age is born, and the law of a greater progress divined.

From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by Cramb, J. A. (John Adam)




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