ungratified

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Dock's legs, Mr. Doggett's public reproof, and the ungratified longing in his stomach for melons, were still giving the boy trouble late Saturday afternoon, after the flight of Friday evening.

From The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Hackley, Sarah Bell

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 Molesworth, Mrs. (Mary Louisa)

Since neither knows much about the Harfinks, their curiosity is ungratified.

From 'O Thou, My Austria!' by Schubin, Ossip

We must not expect that we shall be able to convince women that the marks their children may bear have no analogy with ungratified longings.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

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