dissatisfaction
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There is little margin for error or customer dissatisfaction, as disgruntled viewers will tune out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
MPs launched their inquiry into student loans in England amid "widespread dissatisfaction" over repayment terms.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
As they bicker and jab, their quiet dissatisfaction with their lives stops being so quiet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
He said one of the most common sentiments he hears from voters whose doors he knocks on is broad dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 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
Are employees not telling their managers the truth about their dissatisfactions?
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2023
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
The administrative job’s innate dissatisfactions are written between the lines of these books.
From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2018
Desire's demurs and questions,—her dissatisfactions, sittings and contempts,—threatened now and then to swoop down upon the family life and comfort with destroying talons.
From Real Folks by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)