ungratified

In this comfortable domain of mine, I let no wish go ungratified.

The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna 2010

When deprived of that immediate gratification, we feel, well, ungratified.

Dr. Jim Taylor: Disconnectivity Anxiety 2010

The UN has drafted more than a dozen treaties addressing terrorism, but without an agreed upon definition of the term, the central treaty on the subject, the Comprehensive Convention against Terrorism, is both incomplete and ungratified.

Kerry Kennedy: A New Approach to Terrorism 2009

The result (as poets painted it) was withdrawal from the world — the gratified lover because he had his love and needed nothing else, the ungratified because he did not, and life was not worth living.

Ancient & modern 2009

The Queen cast not an ungratified glance on a large mirror, which, hanging on one side of the apartment, and illuminated by the torch-light, reflected her beautiful face and person.

The Abbot 2008

In the Virgin of the French Middle Ages he found the ideal that allowed him to transform his ungratified love into worship and to create a role for himself that was less demeaning than “tame cat.”

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

In the Virgin of the French Middle Ages he found the ideal that allowed him to transform his ungratified love into worship and to create a role for himself that was less demeaning than “tame cat.”

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

Reverend Mr Alfred Feeder, M.A., on the way home, that if she could only have seen Cicero in his retirement at Tusculum, she would not have had a wish, now, ungratified.

Dombey and Son 2007

Tourists, with whom I had an ardent, but ungratified longing, to establish

Pictures from Italy 2007

Finding her wish ungratified, she fell sick, and the symptoms soon became so alarming, that he (Dr. Grummidge) was called in.

Sketches by Boz 2007