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
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 James Branch Cabell
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 Thomas Frognall Dibdin
