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

You seem to think that it is purposely unsatisfactory, or rather dissatisfactory: but it seems to me to proceed from a kind of enervation in De Quincey. 

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by Wright, William Aldis

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 Cabell, James Branch