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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

Something of the self-dissatisfaction that had numbed poor little Christopher fell to his share.

From Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker by Bryant, Marguerite

One evening in early spring as he walked down the great stairway that led into Glenoro he was reviewing his winter's work with the feeling of self-dissatisfaction that was so common to him now.

From Duncan Polite The Watchman of Glenoro by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller

From the time that it had first been disturbed by the artist's frown in the concert garden, she had been conscious of a secret and growing self-dissatisfaction.

From A Face Illumined by Roe, Edward Payson

It is work which gives contentment; but conscience, when thoroughly roused by the strong meat of a divine law, is the source of much self-dissatisfaction.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman