dissatisfy
to cause to be displeased, especially by failing to provide something expected or desired.
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How to use dissatisfy in a sentence
In 2010, scientists dissatisfied with DSM’s often fuzzy, symptom-based definitions of mental disorders rebelled and tried to define mental conditions based on brain and behavioral measures.
Psychology has struggled for a century to make sense of the mind | Bruce Bower | August 11, 2021 | Science NewsThey always embarrass those who give them, and dissatisfy those who receive them.
Reflections | Francois Duc De La RochefoucauldTo an Arab Sheik, loudest in importunity, he said: "What has happened since yesterday to dissatisfy thee with life?"
The Prince of India, Volume II | Lew. WallacePeter, very soon after our engagement you began to dissatisfy me because I realized that I should never satisfy you.
The Dull Miss Archinard | Anne Douglas SedgwickMr. Pope had reason to be dissatisfy'd with the O in the second Line, and to reject it; for Homer has nothing of it.
Letters Concerning Poetical Translations | William Benson
The alarming way that each one did not throw away what was taken away did not dissatisfy every one.
Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein | Gertrude Stein
British Dictionary definitions for dissatisfy
/ (dɪsˈsætɪsˌfaɪ) /
(tr) to fail to satisfy; disappoint
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