ungratified

Example Sentences

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I am a lover of nature with an ungratified imagination.

From Famous Men of Science by Bolton, Sarah K.

You need not; there is nothing more difficult than to remain unselfish, which is just another word for "sweet and good," if one never knows what it is to have a wish ungratified.

From Christmas Tree Land by Molesworth, Mrs. (Mary Louisa)

Curiosity ungratified will be to you very torture, as I know.”

From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne

All summer her life in every sense; from her cradle not a wish denied, or taste ungratified, but everything lavished upon her which money could purchase or parental fondness bestow.

From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne

She had been much annoyed, she said, by the impertinent interrogations of gossiping people, who often insulted her by withholding their charity when they found their love of gossip ungratified.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Leighton, Alexander