not satisfying
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“It’s not satisfying to anyone I talk to, but I think just framing it in terms of that choice in 2024 has worked,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2023
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
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
![]()