unsatisfactory
adjective
not satisfactory; not satisfying or meeting one's demands; inadequate.
unsatisfactoriness
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a word derived from
unsatisfactory.
Example Sentences
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He had recently been fired from the San Francisco Morning Call for "unsatisfactoriness."
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Balfour has called attention to the unsatisfactoriness of what he described as "too hesitating and uncertain a treatment."
From God and the World A Survey of Thought by Arthur William Robinson
He is not indeed an impostor; for his sense of the beauty of nature and of the unsatisfactoriness of life is real, and his power of conveying this sense to others is real also.
From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury
The unsatisfactoriness of leaving the question to be settled by the decision of the market has become increasingly plain.
From The Settlement of Wage Disputes by Herbert Feis
The result of this latter voyage of discovery will be an increased wonder at the affluence of the mediaeval devotions, combined with amazement at the poverty and unsatisfactoriness of the existing translations.
From A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by William Reed Huntington
