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unsatisfactorily adverb uk /ʌnˌsæt.ɪsˈfæk.tər.əl.i/ us /ʌnˌsæt̬.ɪsˈfæk.tɚ.əl.i/ in a way that is not good enough: 有缺陷地 Prices for corn and soybeans have remained unsatisfactorily low for many farmers. At the end of the novel, we are unsatisfactorily left to draw our own conclusions. After becoming bogged down in disagreements, the talks ended unsatisfactorily. Having briefly and unsatisfactorily studied philosophy at university, she spent several years teaching in South America. Somewhat unsatisfactorily, though typically for an event of this type, the two winners never actually played each other. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Not good enough be not onidiom beneath cop deficiency deficiency in something intolerable intolerably lamely lameness leave a lot to be desiredidiom sadness second-rate sub-optimum subaverage suboptimal unsatisfactory unsatisfying unsound unworthily unworthy
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