dissatisfaction
noun
the state or attitude of not being satisfied; discontent; displeasure.
self-dissatisfaction
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a word derived from
dissatisfaction.
Example Sentences
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Subsiding bitterly into self-dissatisfaction, he went from being one of America’s most prescient futurists to one of its ugliest reactionaries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2018
He followed the butler out into the hall filled with a vague sense of self-dissatisfaction.
From The Mischief Maker by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
And even in our wildest remorse we are self-satisfied with our self-dissatisfaction.
From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill
She had proposed to avoid Hemstead, for, while he interested, he also disquieted her and filled her with self-dissatisfaction.
From From Jest to Earnest by Edward Payson Roe
In this volume, too, he struck the note, so frequently and usefully repeated, of self-dissatisfaction.
From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Augustine Birrell
