Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: dissatisfaction
IPA transcription: [d,ɪsætɪsf'ækʃən]
Pronunciations of dissatisfaction
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: dissatisfaction
    Meaning: the feeling of being displeased and discontent; "he was never slow to express his dissatisfaction with the service he received"
Usage examples
  • With it all, however, there went a second source of dissatisfaction.
  • Neither Laura nor her husband will have any reason for dissatisfaction.
  • In short, dissatisfaction began to display itself on every feminine face.
  • It was a phase of incipient dissatisfaction with life, morbid, but inevitable.
  • This morning I took them by surprise, and showed my dissatisfaction in a very marked manner."
  • The news, too, of this war occasioned great dissatisfaction among the governments of western Europe.
  • "Where's Polly?" said Percy at last, coming with great dissatisfaction in his voice to the library door.
  • Dr Simon had come and gone, optimistic and urbane, yet with a faint inward dissatisfaction over a patient behind whose taciturnity a hint of mockery and subterfuge seemed to lurk.
  • This frank and manly letter, although written with the reserve necessarily belonging to a communication from an officer to his military superiors, expressing dissatisfaction with orders, fully vindicates Major Anderson from all suspicion of complicity or sympathy with the bad faith of the Government which he was serving.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Boshin War, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Interactive voice response, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Julius Caesar, License CC BY-SA 4.0