ungratified

Example Sentences

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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 Leighton, Alexander

But there was still in their hearts a service unexpressed, an intense desire ungratified.

From Religion and the War by Various

Lady Ormstork looked deeply grateful; indeed, as though a load of ungratified longing had been lifted from her shoulders; while Miss Buffkin seemed, from one cause or another, highly amused.

From A Poached Peerage by Magnay, William

All summer her life in every sense; from her cradle not a wish denied, or taste ungratified, but everything lavished upon her which money could purchase or parental fondness bestow.

From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne

For a great many years this vanity had remained ungratified.

From The Westerners by White, Stewart Edward