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

"To me it has ever seemed the most dissatisfactory thing that could be imagined."

From The Firm of Girdlestone by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

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