ungratified
Example Sentences
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You need not; there is nothing more difficult than to remain unselfish, which is just another word for "sweet and good," if one never knows what it is to have a wish ungratified.
From Christmas Tree Land by Mrs. (Mary Louisa) Molesworth
She had been much annoyed, she said, by the impertinent interrogations of gossiping people, who often insulted her by withholding their charity when they found their love of gossip ungratified.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Alexander Leighton
Years fled on—years of burning disappointment and ungratified passion.
From The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) by Susanna Moodie
She called to mind her brave struggle with fate, with her fellow-men, and with her own heart; her love, grafted on pain, had brought forth not gladness but ungratified longing.
From 'Midst the Wild Carpathians by M?r J?kai
The other was a now half-forgotten ungratified wish—the wish to find the youngster who had done him such service twelve years before.
From The Outspan Tales of South Africa by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
