dissatisfaction
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Accommodation manager Yuta Matsuo told Reuters the hosts were "fully aware of the dissatisfaction and concerns voiced by the athlete delegations".
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Nicastro also placed cats in unfamiliar environments, hoping to get meows of dissatisfaction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
"The impact on the American consumer has gone up tremendously," he said, adding that there was growing dissatisfaction in the rural, normally Republican area of Virginia where he lives.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Even if a trust member’s aesthetic dissatisfaction were a cognizable injury, the trust itself would lack standing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Richard watched the smile that pulled her mouth up at one end, a sardonic smile that he imagined hid something else, perhaps dissatisfaction.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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But “The Book of Ayn” is rife with dissatisfactions — to its credit — and with self-aware jokes and serious questions about self-awareness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
These interesting and extremely human but abstract dissatisfactions suffer by dint of the forced comparison to crappy conditions real people really lived with during the pandemic.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2021
Haemin is especially eloquent on life’s smaller dissatisfactions, and how they can sometimes be trickier to deal with than the bigger, more dramatic ones.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2019
He added, “Perhaps my basic dissatisfactions are what motivate me.”
From New York Times ● May 19, 2017
They say, in another place, that there is no ground for the dissatisfactions and difficulties of the weavers: "that they are owing to the delâls, whose aim it is to be employed."
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) by Edmund Burke