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.
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
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.
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.
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.
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.