give satisfaction
Example Sentences
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The markets seem relaxed, much to the private satisfaction of some Burnham advisers.
From BBC • Jun. 29, 2026
I would teach myself how not to play myself; I could feel private satisfaction about other people’s hubris while I learned from their mistakes.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 5, 2016
He liked reminding himself of it, he said, because he took a certain private satisfaction in how far he had come in life in spite of his mediocre showing on the standardized test.
From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2014
They were written for private satisfaction; they should cause public delight.
From Time Magazine Archive
For as to those friendships with the great, and their artificial attractions, they have indeed a certain glitter in the outside world, but they bring no private satisfaction.
From The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Shuckburgh, Evelyn S.
