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- adjective Not producing
fulfillment or a sense ofaccomplishment ;dissatisfying .
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Examples
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However, I’ll humor you and point out that if these young people are gay, then recognizing that possibility allows them to develop functional, healthy relationships along with their peers, rather than spending years in unfulfilling relationships, desperately searching for the “right” person who isn’t there because they’re looking in the wrong place.
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Often, those makeovers are really just incredibly tacky - I mean, not in a gaudy way, but they're just kind of unfulfilling and unsubstantial.
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It is essentially moving in a completely new direction, a completely new paradigm, this paradigm of unilateralism has been established, and it's really a kind of unfulfilling taste, a dose of reality, I would say, not just for the Israeli public but for the foreign press as well.
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For many of us, the context for our existence has become mechanical and often unfulfilling.
Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D.: The Transformation of Social Life Ph.D. Kingsley Dennis 2011
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The 2010 elections threaten to be like an unfulfilling but expensive meal.
Richard Walden: Bleeding Nonprofits in an Election Year Richard Walden 2010
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Before Colleen shipped out, they had achieved a sense of balance, something to maintain the shape of their marriage, as unfulfilling as it often was.
Furlough 2009
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Before Colleen shipped out, they had achieved a sense of balance, something to maintain the shape of their marriage, as unfulfilling as it often was.
Furlough 2009
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For many of us, the context for our existence has become mechanical and often unfulfilling.
Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D.: The Transformation of Social Life Ph.D. Kingsley Dennis 2011
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The 2010 elections threaten to be like an unfulfilling but expensive meal.
Richard Walden: Bleeding Nonprofits in an Election Year Richard Walden 2010
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The 2010 elections threaten to be like an unfulfilling but expensive meal.
Richard Walden: Bleeding Nonprofits in an Election Year Richard Walden 2010
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