gratify
verb (used with object)
to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings.
ungratified
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a word derived from
gratify.
Example Sentences
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A fortune which would enable him to satisfy all desires and tastes hitherto ungratified?
From The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation by Rolf Boldrewood
You need not; there is nothing more difficult than to remain unselfish, which is just another word for "sweet and good," if one never knows what it is to have a wish ungratified.
From Christmas Tree Land by Mrs. (Mary Louisa) Molesworth
She called to mind her brave struggle with fate, with her fellow-men, and with her own heart; her love, grafted on pain, had brought forth not gladness but ungratified longing.
From 'Midst the Wild Carpathians by M?r J?kai
The impression that results from the reading of all the official reports is not altogether satisfactory, and besides leaves us with our curiosity entirely ungratified.
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion
Curiosity ungratified will be to you very torture, as I know.”
From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid
