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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dissatisfied
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alternatively, if you are an objector, any amendments may still leave you feeling dissatisfied.
▪ In any event, a dissatisfied enquirer can be a disgruntled member!
▪ Others were dissatisfied rusticated youth and unemployed urban workers with Red Guard backgrounds.
▪ Road maintenance was the biggest source of complaint, with 54% dissatisfied.
▪ Then he saw the watchful, ruthless, dissatisfied eyes.
▪ This is particularly bad in London and, as a result, dissatisfied clients are looking to the merits of regionally-based firms.
▪ You may find that an overqualified person will quickly become dissatisfied and leave.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
dissatisfied

dissatisfied \dissatisfied\ adj. in a state of sulky dissatisfaction.

Syn: disgruntled.

Wiktionary
dissatisfied
  1. 1 Feeling or displaying disappointment or a lack of contentment 2 Not satisfied (with the quality of something) v

  2. (en-past of: dissatisfy)

WordNet
dissatisfied

adj. in a state of sulky dissatisfaction [syn: disgruntled]

dissatisfy
  1. v. fail to satisfy [ant: satisfy]

  2. [also: dissatisfied]

dissatisfied

Usage examples of "dissatisfied".

So once again, she was back at Beaux Reves, edgy, dissatisfied, and secretly disgusted with herself.

She said nothing, thinking it not impossible that he was again dissatisfied with the fruitlessness of his life, and had been made to feel it more strongly by associating with so many new people.

But we know that Howe was dissatisfied with Heister before the affair at Trenton, at a time when the English losses had been decidedly heavier than the Hessian.

He was a proud man, dissatisfied both with himself and his calling, resenting, with less reason than Hans Holbein showed, that he should be condemned to portrait painting, yet by no means undervaluing or slurring over his work.

It had before caused a quarrel with his son-in-law, and occasioned remonstrances from his truest friends, which produced no other effect than that of making him displeased with them, and more dissatisfied with himself.

They were forever playing to the prejudices of the vast, unintegrated, dissatisfied, general riff-raff.

When the white-face put his hat back on, he was dissatisfied with its placement, and bade Zanni hold the mirror for him.

I asked him if he was not dissatisfied with having so small a share of wealth, and none of those distinctions in the state which are the objects of ambition.

They were not altogether dissatisfied with the situation, being pleased to learn that their failsafe system worked, and they would, they assured us, see to it that he was given institutional care.

He acted dissatisfied and highheaded, and I felt worried in my mind, not knowin' what his next move would be.

After every appointment with Naomi, Lisa had felt unsettled, vaguely dissatisfied, almost irritated with the woman for being so serenely content with her observant lifestyle.

Even if he does, still there are Travellers with me who are dissatisfied with his leadership.

It implied that some Tweeners at least were dissatisfied with Grannis.

Money, the military, dissatisfied contractors, and various labor and antiwar organizations were going to blow it up into an issue with a capital I.

The hoi polloi of jarvies or stevedores or whatever they were after a cursory examination turned their eyes apparently dissatisfied, away though one redbearded bibulous individual portion of whose hair was greyish, a sailor probably, still stared for some appreciable time before transferring his rapt attention to the floor.