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

I've fed on dried and desiccated and other disastrous and dissatisfactory diets till I'm all shrivelled up inside like a dead puff-ball; now it's me for the big feed and the long drink.

From The Barrier by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

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