ungratified

Example Sentences

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A fortune which would enable him to satisfy all desires and tastes hitherto ungratified?

From The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation by Boldrewood, Rolf

For a great many years this vanity had remained ungratified.

From The Westerners by White, Stewart Edward

Eric worships you, he lives only in your looks, and will leave no wish of yours ungratified, showering upon you everything that wealth can give.

From 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)

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

So Mr. Gage's yearning was still ungratified, and so he told himself, and his friend, Peckover, in no measured terms as he rampaged about the more secluded quarters of the demesne.

From A Poached Peerage by Magnay, William