Example Sentences

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Even though he found conventional success early in his career, he found the life he’d willed himself into to be ungratifying.

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2017

Checking the psychological back grounds of some 80 cancer patients, Bahnson found that they all had a "poor, ungratifying, mechanical relationship to their parents."

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. and Mrs. Levy, who considered each other the only ungratifying objects in the home, sat before their television set watching the colors merge together 011 the screen.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

To assume a character that is in every way opposed to one's own character is unwise and ungratifying.

From Book of Etiquette, Volume 2 by Watson, Lillian Eichler

The sisters were soon perfectly reconciled to one another, and Olga even promised, at C�cilie's desire, to receive Herr von Wegen, and impart the ungratifying news to him.

From Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von