unsatisfactory
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“The first quarter of 2026 was unsatisfactory for us, with weather-related supply-chain disruptions and pressure on freight rates leading to significantly lower results,” Chief Executive Rolf Habben Jansen said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
Customer-service operations still rely heavily on underpaid and poorly trained humans, leading to general dissatisfaction across all service metrics, including wait times and repeat calls, with consumers increasingly resorting to equally unsatisfactory self-service alternatives.
From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026
International Cricket Council referee Jeff Crowe is yet to deliver his assessment of the pitch, pondering whether to give it an "unsatisfactory" rating which would see the venue slapped with a demerit point.
From Barron's • Dec. 28, 2025
While the Snicko controversy is unsatisfactory for a series of this magnitude, it pales in comparison to the substandard nature of England's performance.
From BBC • Dec. 18, 2025
The delay prevented us from setting down on July 4,1976, but it was generally agreed that a crash landing on that date would have been an unsatisfactory two hundredth birthday present for the United States.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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