unsatisfying
- not fulfilling or satisfactoryit was inherently unsatisfying work
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Examples from the Web for unsatisfying
Contemporary Examples
But as a model of economic fairness, or of the role of universities in social mobility, it is unsatisfying.
Poverty, violence, near fatal cancer, his punishing and unsatisfying ride through the justice system.
And yet, ultimately the book is unsatisfying, because the mystery remains unexpectedly unsolved.
Will These Men Ever Come Home? The Search for Missing WWII Pilots in “Vanished”Jordan Michael Smith
November 14, 2013
But this has left our public discourse empty and unsatisfying.
Any girl (or guy)—at a bar, on the subway, at the office, a pro—offers a quick yet unsatisfying release for him.
Historical Examples
The air at that altitude is thin and, to the one not accustomed to it, most unsatisfying.
They of the High TrailsHamlin Garland
Yet all this was cold and unsatisfying, a poor substitute for the other things.
Mr. Grex of Monte CarloE. Phillips Oppenheim
"I couldn't say, sir," is the civil but unsatisfying reply with which research is met.
Love Among the ChickensP. G. Wodehouse
The fruit of her labor was in her hands, but it was vapid, tasteless, unsatisfying.
Madeline Payne, the Detective's DaughterLawrence L. Lynch
He has sounded the depths of rural existence and found it unsatisfying.
SocietyHenry Kalloch Rowe