unsatisfying
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Her story captures exactly why a typical physician’s answer based on population-level evidence and statistics can feel so unsatisfying to an individual patient or worried family member.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
Ultimately, what this trial has revealed is just as incomplete and unsatisfying as its conclusion.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
He found the buying and selling of global securities clunky and unsatisfying with traditional brokerages, according to a 2023 profile in Hunan Today, a Chinese newspaper based in Li’s home province.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
He said the one particular plot point "is revived and resolved in a very spurious and unsatisfying way", adding that "IP exhaustion has set in" on the franchise.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
The rest of the time he accepted this as untrue and went about the business of consoling himself in various unsatisfying ways.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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