dissatisfactory
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- dissatisfactoriness noun
Etymology
Origin of dissatisfactory
First recorded in 1600–10; dis- 1 + satisfactory
Example Sentences
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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
Irritable as my feelings were, I had always experienced something infinitely more dissatisfactory in being angry with him than with any other person.
From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Holcroft, Thomas
My Dear Charles,—This is very evasive and dissatisfactory.
From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle
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