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[ US /dɪˈsætəsˌfaɪ/ ]
VERB
  1. fail to satisfy

How To Use dissatisfy In A Sentence

  • This book, his greatest (though he claimed to prefer two of his more refined and ponderous works), is lovable enough, unsettling enough and dissatisfying enough -- altogether granular enough -- that I hereby make the following prediction: "Huckleberry Finn" will never overripen, nor grow stale, nor ossify. Books on Southern Humor
  • In one study involving 909 working women from Texas, Kahneman found that they spend on average 17.7 per cent of their time engaged in dissatisfying activities.
  • These small actions dissatisfy her seemingly endless rage.
  • We should empty our hearts, if its legends dissatisfy and lend a little ear to this man spelling out the interior, the temper and innate genius of nature. The leisure to walk about sweetly
  • This appeared to dissatisfy the young man in the dinner-jacket who seemed about to curse the Abbé but his anger took another form when he perceived me. Time Regained
  • Epidem., a physician might answer to such as might find the metamorphosis indecent: Thus have I accoutred myself, not that I am proud of appearing in such a dress, but for the sake of my patient, whom alone I wholly design to please, and no wise offend or dissatisfy. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • They're kind of dissatisfying if you think you're about to read about a specific upcoming work, though... Alex Cox on Stuart Immonen’s Centifolia | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
  • The plot is staid, with a particularly dissatisfying conclusion.
  • These responses correspond with satisfying and dissatisfying aspects of supervision and involvement articulated by nonsupervisory employees.
  • The choice in a general election between two candidates either of whom can satisfy most people, or at least radically dissatisfy very few, always leaves some of us with no choice at all.
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