What is "unsatisfying"

Usage examples of "unsatisfying".

They stole a quick, unsatisfying kiss before Castor, summoned by some butlerish instinct, appeared to open the door.

Lucy found the thoughts Edd had roused running in her mind, not wholly unsatisfying.

There was a strange and unsatisfying win in seeing Captain Janeway finally having to see what it had been for the Equinox crew.

I know Stoner would love a dog, but it would have to be a very small dog, and small dogs are so unsatisfying.

Fame at its utmost best,--and Theos sighed once or twice restlessly as he inwardly reflected how poor and unsatisfying were his own poetical powers, and how totally unfitted he was to cope with a rival so vastly his superior.

How far removed delicious, exquisite Feiqa was from the motivated artifices, the lies and fabrications, the propaganda, the demeaning, sterile, unsatisfying, reductive, negative superficialities of antibiological roles, the prescriptions of an unnatural and pathological politics, the manipulative instrumentations of monsters and freaks.

Although a literary artist, Tolstoy was one of those primitive oaks of men to whom the superfluities and insincerities, the cupidities, complications, and cruelties of our polite civilization are profoundly unsatisfying, and for whom the eternal veracities lie with more natural and animal things.

But because thou ever earnest for what is not present, and despisest what is, life has slipped from thy grasp unfinished and unsatisfying, and or ever thou thoughtest, death has taken his stand at thy pillow, before thou canst take thy departure sated and filled with good things.

From Ritu's point of view, dittoing must have seemed a horribly inefficient and unsatisfying process, even before she learned the truth about Beta.

And as I drank my first glass of iced tea, cold and good going down my parched throat, loaded with real sugar rather than that unsatisfying artificial shit, I had time to wonder if I was doing Ned Wilcox any favors.

I toyed with Muscular Christianity for a spell, eventually found it dashed unsatisfying.

Pulling his stillsuit's water tube to his mouth, he drew in an unsatisfying sip of warm water.