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unsatisfactory

Adjective

Meaning

not giving satisfaction

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...a disposition is an unsatisfactory thing unless we give it practical effect - deeds show dispositions. Gregory of Nazianzus

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory. Tennessee Williams

Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience. Thomas Browne

Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties. Richard Hofstadter

The conditions of the near future must naturally develop from those which we see today; and I think that as we look about us, unless we are terribly prejudiced, we must admit that in spite of our boasted civilization there is very much which is highly unsatisfactory. p. 324. Charles Webster Leadbeater

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. Albert Einstein

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