How to Use unsatisfactory in a Sentence

unsatisfactory

adjective

• He was fired for unsatisfactory performance.
• The ideas have been rejected as unsatisfactory by the EU many times over the past two years.
  — Ian Wishart, Bloomberg.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• And then the third thing is the dam in poor or unsatisfactory condition.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2022
• All of these things are true, and Biden’s response is still unsatisfactory.
  — Michael McGough Los Angeles Times, Star Tribune, 13 Oct. 2020
• As a matter of fact, the sales of luxury goods in China in the first quarter of this year were indeed unsatisfactory.
  — Li Jun, WWD, 24 June 2024
• But the show has also been plagued by the poor weather, and some of the sound crew walked off the job one night, complaining of unsafe and unsatisfactory working conditions in the rain.
  — Abby Carney, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2021
• That offer was deemed unsatisfactory by Fulham, who rejected the move and managed to keep hold of one half of the Sessegnon duo.
  — SI.com, 5 Sep. 2019
• Fajardo said some of her van clients tried to call the number, but they were left with unsatisfactory results.
  — Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, NOLA.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• This can give shoppers a better sense of how clothes fit them, reducing the risk of buying items that don't fit or are unsatisfactory.
  — Saul Maslavi, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• Lori Alhadeff, who asked the board to fire Runcie last year, gave him an unsatisfactory rating again this year.
  — Scott Travis, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2020
• Right now, the current standard of care to treat mental health is unsatisfactory.
  — Jill Griffin, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
• But a customer returned to say her children found the brown box unsatisfactory.
  — David Pierson, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
• My wife gave me an unsatisfactory glance from the window and then vacuumed.
  — Josh Lorenzo, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2017
• To its credit, NIST realizes how deep the problem is and how crude and unsatisfactory many of our approaches to solving it are so far.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 3 May 2022
• In December 2019, the union went on strike over unsatisfactory pay, and some buses ran on a reduced schedule.
  — Danny Nguyen, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
• The offer has been deemed 'unsatisfactory', however, with Milan holding out for at least €25m, after forking out €38m to sign him in the first place.
  — SI.com, 3 July 2019
• If the effect of the anti-aliasing is unsatisfactory in these contexts, the cable is a little awkward.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2017
• My white clay cat test creation was mostly unsatisfactory, while a fabric rose proved a bit better, if dark.
  — Bill Loguidice, Ars Technica, 17 June 2017
• The suspense built in his books never lead to an unsatisfactory ending.
  — Sheena Scott, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2021
• The only way to ever be able to understand what's unsatisfactory about it is to step back from the technology and look at us as a species, to look at us as a planet and ask what is lacking.
  — Michael Calore, Wired, 31 Aug. 2020
• After all, Private Judy Benjamin ends up in the army while grieving over a husband who dies in the throes of passion on their wedding night, as the couple has unsatisfactory sex on the bathroom floor.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 16 May 2017
• But there has long been another unsatisfactory aspect to the spring hearings process – low turnout.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2018
• Focusing on the art while skimping on the life can be equally unsatisfactory.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2023
• Rising food prices have made grocery store trips stressful and unsatisfactory, even for the employed.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2023
• Seven out of the 10 organizations, on an A-through-F scale, received a score of D, or unsatisfactory.
  — Julia Terruso, Philly.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• Having so many players in and out of the rotation (due to injury or unsatisfactory play), the Huskies were constantly tinkering with their style of play.
  — Alexa Philippou, courant.com, 25 Dec. 2021
• If the new itinerary is unsatisfactory, Delta will offer refunds or work with passengers to find flights that meet their needs.
  — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 27 May 2022
• That process seems to be the issue the commission has with Twitter’s unsatisfactory report.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 9 Feb. 2023
• Thirty years after the case was launched, the state failed to fix the system, with the results so unsatisfactory that New Hampshire’s school funding was declared unconstitutional again last year.
  — Peter Greene, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
• The dam is classified as a high-hazard dam in unsatisfactory condition, according to the National Inventory of Dams.
  — NBC News, 9 July 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024