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unsatisˈfactory, a.
(un-1 7.)
1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 65 This ansuer wes judged..unsatisfactorie. 1652Benlowes Theoph. Pref., All external splendours being unsatisfactory. 1714R. Fiddes Pract. Disc. ii. 212 The very enjoyments of life..are..in themselves unsatisfactory. 1777J. Richardson Dissert. East. Nations 9 [It] opens a wide field for unsatisfactory enquiry. 1818Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 692 To assert without stating particulars, would be unsatisfactory. 1843A. Bethune Sc. Fireside Stor. 88 As his visit proved unsatisfactory, he determined to make his stay short. 1890Retrospect Med. CII. 17 The treatment of this dangerous complication is most unsatisfactory.
Add:b. Law. Of a verdict, conviction, etc. : not unequivocally satisfying the law, and so giving rise to the possibility of a miscarriage of justice. More or less synonymous with *unsafe a. 4 (q.v.).
1907Papers rel. Case G. Edalji 6 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 3503) LXVII. 403 In our opinion, the conviction was unsatisfactory, and..we cannot agree with the verdict of the jury. 1965Rep. Interdepartmental Comm. Court of Criminal Appeal iii. 33 in Parl. Papers 1964–5 (Cmnd. 2755) XIII. 1 In spite of this rejection of the words ‘unsafe or unsatisfactory’, the Court has sometimes acted..as though..entitled to quash a verdict which it considered to be unsafe or unsatisfactory, in spite of there being some evidence to support it. 1989Times 28 Nov. 36/5 That led to the uneasy conclusion that the conviction was unsafe and unsatisfactory. |