Dissatisfy
[dɪ(s)'sætɪsfaɪ] or [dɪs'sætɪs,fai]
Definition
(v. t.) To render unsatisfied or discontented; to excite uneasiness in by frustrating wishes or expectations; to displease by the want of something requisite; as, to be dissatisfied with one's fortune.
Typist: Sam
Definition
v.t. not to satisfy: to make discontented: to displease.—adj. Dissat′isfied discontented: not pleased.
Checker: Sheena
Examples
- There were, in fact, but few things which Luttrell did not vote a tax on life, being one of the most dissatisfied men I ever knew. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Faust was dissatisfied with Gutenberg, and took occasion to tell Sch?ffer one evening that he believed the firm would do better without the master. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I felt ill at ease and dissatisfied with myself, I hardly knew why. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- After some uneasy moving in his seat, he got up and walked about, looking very much dissatisfied. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- For Glaucon, who is always the most pugnacious of men, was dissatisfied at Thrasymachus' retirement; he wanted to have the battle out. Plato. The Republic.
- Dissatisfied, and uncomfortable, and--what would it signify to me, being coarse and common, if nobody had told me so! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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