Example Sentences

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But “The Book of Ayn” is rife with dissatisfactions — to its credit — and with self-aware jokes and serious questions about self-awareness.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2023

But Clare’s sudden presence begins to raise a sense of dangerous possibility within Irene — one of unacknowledged desires and dissatisfactions.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2021

These interesting and extremely human but abstract dissatisfactions suffer by dint of the forced comparison to crappy conditions real people really lived with during the pandemic.

From Slate • Jun. 23, 2021

Haemin is especially eloquent on life’s smaller dissatisfactions, and how they can sometimes be trickier to deal with than the bigger, more dramatic ones.

From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2019

"Whence," said I, "can these dissatisfactions and repinings arise?"

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden