dissatisfactory
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of dissatisfactory
First recorded in 1600–10; dis- 1 + satisfactory
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Touching your face can be a spontaneous or even subconscious act that some research indicates can help us deal with anxiety and discomfort, or be related to negative or dissatisfactory feelings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2022
It fits with the preconceived notion of Brazil that it would have a potentially great program, only to hinder it with a dissatisfactory commitment to nurturing it.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2016
Life has since returned to a dissatisfactory normal for most people living in public housing.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2013
"To me it has ever seemed the most dissatisfactory thing that could be imagined."
From The Firm of Girdlestone by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The principal value of Maittaire's Annales Typographici consists in a great deal of curious matter detailed in the notes; but the absence of the "lucidus ordo" renders the perusal of these fatiguing and dissatisfactory.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
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