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Unsatisfactoriness

noun
1.
The quality of being inadequate or unsuitable.






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"Unsatisfactoriness" Quotes from Famous Books



... upon the brow of the hill, where we must have shown up plain against the sky, began at once to wave in a very frantic way, and we, replying in like manner, shouted ourselves hoarse with vain greetings. But soon we grew wearied of the unsatisfactoriness of this method of showing our excitement, and one took a piece of the square canvas, and let it stream out into the wind, waving it to them, and another took a second piece and did likewise, while a third man rolled up a short ...
— The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" • William Hope Hodgson

... circumstances, pushed in our country to a sudden and not wholly merited prominence, Sir. Spencer's republished essays may be named,—while they acknowledge some progress in details, disclose an undertone of growing conviction of the incompetency and unsatisfactoriness of our present modes of teaching and training. The Oswego School Report, speaking of primary education, tells us 'There has been too much teaching by formulas;' and that 'We are quite too apt, in the education of ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. I, No. V, May, 1862 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various



Words linked to "Unsatisfactoriness" :   unacceptability, satisfactoriness, inadequateness, perishability, quality, unacceptableness, perishableness, unsatisfactory, inadequacy



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