DISSATISFIED in a Sentence

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The officers, his comrades, like most of the army, were dissatisfied with the peace concluded after the battle of Friedland.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISSATISFIED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dissatisfied
 a.  in a state of sulky dissatisfaction
Classic Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
1  Altogether he felt dissatisfied with Sobakevitch's behaviour.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
2  Yet that folk should be dissatisfied with my hero matters nothing.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
3  It was late when, tired and dissatisfied, Chichikov regained Kostanzhoglo's mansion.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
4  'No, but I am dissatisfied,' Madame Odintsov replied, dwelling on each syllable.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  Though the aide-de-camp did not know these circumstances, he nevertheless delivered the definite order that the men should be in their greatcoats and in marching order, and that the commander-in-chief would otherwise be dissatisfied.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
6  The Austrian general looked dissatisfied, but had no option but to reply in the same tone.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III
7  Through the door came the sounds of Kutuzov's voice, excited and dissatisfied, interrupted by another, an unfamiliar voice.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII
8  The officers, his comrades, like most of the army, were dissatisfied with the peace concluded after the battle of Friedland.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XXI
9  The party of the old and dissatisfied, who censured the innovations, turned to him expecting his sympathy in their disapproval of the reforms, simply because he was the son of his father.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V
10  Pierre began to feel dissatisfied with what he was doing.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII
11  Before he left he had a long talk with his father about something, and Princess Mary noticed that before his departure they were dissatisfied with one another.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXV
12  Marquis Paulucci was talking to him with particular warmth and the Emperor, with his head bent to the left, was listening with a dissatisfied air.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XI
13  They all gazed with the same dissatisfied and inquiring expression at this stout man in a white hat, who for some unknown reason threatened to trample them under his horse's hoofs.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXI
14  They all seemed dissatisfied and uneasy.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER X
15  Just then the countess came in from the sitting room with a weary and dissatisfied expression.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence:
1  I have tried to write this story five times but I am still dissatisfied with me.
2  Everyone is dissatisfied with his own fortune.
3  The decision left us feeling deeply dissatisfied.
4  He was dissatisfied with the status quo.
5  She's very dissatisfied at not getting a bonus.
6  Don't just hint around that you're dissatisfied: be explicit about what's bugging you.
7  I watched her for nearly half-an-hour: during all that time she never turned a page, and her face grew moment darker, more dissatisfied, and more sourly expressive of disappointment.