dissatisfied
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- dissatisfiedly adverb
- dissatisfiedness noun
- self-dissatisfied adjective
Etymology
Origin of dissatisfied
First recorded in 1665–75; dissatisfy + -ed 2
Example Sentences
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“It is like smelling bad, spoiled salsa! Yuck!!” raved another dissatisfied customer.
From Salon
"I was always dissatisfied with the way I looked on screen," he said in a 2011 interview with Bollywood site Glamsham.
From Barron's
“NAR is making concessions to maintain the support of dissatisfied members,” says Stephen Brobeck, a senior fellow at the Consumer Policy Center.
From Barron's
Credited with helping to ignite second-wave feminism in the 1960s, the book claimed that many middle-class, college-educated women were dissatisfied being confined to their roles as housewives and mothers.
The chief of personnel made a dissatisfied clicking noise in the back of his throat.
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