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Dissatisfy   /dɪsˈætəsfˌaɪ/   Listen
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Dissatisfy  v. t.  (past & past part. dissatisfied; pres. part. dissatisfying)  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. "The dissatisfied factions of the autocracy."






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"Dissatisfy" Quotes from Famous Books



... reckons, besides those left behind, eighty-nine men-of-war, and twenty-five ships, though we cannot hear that they have with them above eighteen. The French are not yet joined with the Dutch, which do dissatisfy the Hollanders, and if they should have a defeat, will undo De Witt; the people generally of Holland do hate this league ...
— The Diary of Samuel Pepys • Samuel Pepys

... Emperor's court, and advised that the opinions of all the Daimios should be taken.... On examination of my household affairs (the administration of Shogun's territories), many irregularities may exist which may dissatisfy the people, and which I therefore greatly deplore. Hence I intend to establish a Kogijio and to accept the opinion of the majority. Any one, therefore, who has an opinion to express may do so at that place and be free ...
— The Constitutional Development of Japan 1863-1881 • Toyokichi Iyenaga

... if they were handsom, and fit to make Impressions: And he would check this Uneasiness in himself, and ask his Heart, what it meant, by rising and beating in those Moments, and strive to assume an Indifferency in vain, and depart dissatisfy'd, and out ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume V • Aphra Behn

... Arab Sheik, loudest in importunity, he said: "What has happened since yesterday to dissatisfy ...
— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 2 • Lew. Wallace

... from the other side of the Seine, or of the lake of Geneva; from the Marche aux Fleurs, or the Valley of Chamouni; from the parapets of the apse, or the crags of the Montagne de la Cote: but there are intermediate distances which dissatisfy us in either case, and from which one is in haste either to advance or ...
— The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) • John Ruskin



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