Ungratifying

Mr. SIEGEL: Well, I think there are there is extremist rhetoric, certainly, but I think long ago, the American political landscape became defined by titillating incidents rather than ungratifying facts or policy positions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Last Chapter is heavy with remorse and pain, and when Peter Torbiörnsson finally confronts Thomas Borge -- the Sandinista probably most responsible for ordering the slaughter in the press conference -- the results are ungratifying. ❋ Stewart Nusbaumer (2010)

Work from there and create a win-win situation rather than a silly and ungratifying win-lose scenario. development ❋ Dean Francis Alfar (2004)

Looking back, though, I think ungratifying is the wrong word. ❋ Wakko101 (2002)

Take away hope, and life, with all its fascinating variety of opportunities and experiences, reduces to mere existence—uninteresting, ungratifying, bleak, drab and repellent, a burden and a pain. ❋ MIKE NAPPA (2001)

He had spent decades teaching in the university, yet he considered it “a burdensome, ungratifying business.” ❋ Leonard Mlodinow (2001)

Thus the presenting terror of lesbianism, which in this case signified reengulfment in ungratifying symbiosis with her mother. ❋ Judith Marks Mishne (1986)

To assume a character that is in every way opposed to one's own character is unwise and ungratifying. ❋ Lillian Eichler Watson (N/A)

The money I want badly, while praise, although it will not be ungratifying, I am sufficiently philosophical to get along very comfortably without. ❋ Unknown (1876)

As I was reckoned an uncommonly well-educated boy, it may not be ungratifying to the admirers of the present system of education to pause here for a moment, and recal what I then knew. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)