Unsatisfactory

Examples

• On one such occasion, when Wilbur Wright found the weather conditions unsatisfactory, he declined to fly. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• This guarantee, with a chance to obtain the money back if the purchase was unsatisfactory, was a new idea, and appealed to every one as a most sincere and honorable way of doing business. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Probing was unsatisfactory, he said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The presence of these nitrogen compounds influences the action of the chlorine and produces unsatisfactory results. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Chinese history is still very imperfectly known to European students, and our accounts of the early records are particularly unsatisfactory. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He was in one of his moods, for the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over again. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• In the world around us we see makeshift devices at work in all those branches, ill co-ordinated one with another and unsatisfactory in themselves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Nor do we know if the methods of election used for the Soviets are any improvement upon the unsatisfactory methods in use in the Atlantic democracies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And at the best, how indefinite and unsatisfactory, only to know so vaguely what they are! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He had been able to make no more of it and no less of it, and in this unsatisfactory condition he was fain to leave it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Neat, smooth, hard, beautiful pavements are now taking the place everywhere of the unsatisfactory gravel, wood, and brick pavements of former days. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I confess, said Lydgate, smiling, amusement is rather an unsatisfactory prescription. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• A few years of rather unsatisfactory commercial experience brought about a reorganization, through which Edison resumed possession of the business. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• When manufacturers treat their wares to as little burnishing as possible, practically relying upon the buff alone for their finish after plating, the result is most unsatisfactory. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The reason given for not introducing it before the hearing is unsatisfactory. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This answer is unsatisfactory; not because it contains any falshood, but because it discovers not all the truth. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• What sad, unsatisfactory thoughts those of the widow were! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• This mode of charging was, however, very unsatisfactory, for the size of the burner is a very uncertain indication of the quantity of gas consumed. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The young man had spent an unsatisfactory day. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Thus the glimpses we had of the grand panorama below were only fitful and unsatisfactory. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The cheapest and most unsatisfactory device is known as pocket plugs. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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