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unsatisˈfactorily, adv. (un-1 11 and 5 b.)
1657F. Roberts in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. III. 239 Augustine also expounds the words much to the same effect, but altogether as unsatisfactorily. 1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T. A 3, Many..are too large and costly for this use: some..are unsatisfactorily brief. c1714Pope Let. Wks. 1751 VII. 138 To shew you how very unsatisfactorily you write,..you've never told me how you do. 1794R. J. Sulivan View Nat. IV. 11 Materialism, as I have repeatedly said, and I hope not unsatisfactorily proved, is [etc.]. 1838James Louis XIV, III. 50 Completing that which had been thus imperfectly and unsatisfactorily begun. 1884Law Rep. 12 Q.B.D. 583 The scope and effect of an Act so unsatisfactorily framed. |