not satisfying
Example Sentences
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Yet this answer is not satisfying to everyone.
From Scientific American • Nov. 22, 2022
But, as Willis Aronowitz's explorations suggest, that may be the same reason it remains so compelling to people — even when it's not satisfying to us.
From Salon • Sep. 3, 2022
The playwright David Mamet, writing scornfully in 1998 about “pseudoart,” observed that “people are drawn to summer movies because they are not satisfying, and so they offer opportunities to repeat the compulsion.”
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2021
“We were going to do something important but not satisfying: maintain a long-term project with a problematic government to maintain a fragile progress and avoid a catastrophe,” Malinowski said.
From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2021
He thought he was in the Paris Grill listening to the automatic phonograph playing; but that was not satisfying.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
