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To my gratification she arrived on time.gratification = great satisfaction
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dull repetitious work gives me no gratification
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Working as fast as he could he carefully placed the dried grass and wood pieces he had tried at first on top of the bark and was gratified to see them take. (source)gratified = happy (greatly satisfied)
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...much more gratified I had my agent Susan Bergholz providing for me rather than a husband. (source)gratified = pleased
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It's deeply gratifying, Sam, to know that I haven't been wasting my time in talking to you. (source)gratifying = pleasing (pleasurable)
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"Ah - ah - Madam," gasped Uncle Andrew, "I am most honoured - highly gratified - a most unexpected, pleasure--" (source)gratified = pleased
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She said: 'I am sure that every one of us here in the barn cellar will be gratified to learn that after four weeks of unremitting effort and patience on the part of the goose, she now has something to show for it.' (source)gratified = pleased
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A thoroughly good sermon, thoroughly well delivered, is a capital gratification. (source)gratification = pleasure
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"It's very gratifying," he said, often repeating the remark in the course of the evening. (source)gratifying = pleasurable
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Don't you care a little to gratify your daughter? (source)gratify = give pleasure or satisfaction
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The world was a series of fleeting gratifications.† (source)
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Across the street, the pornographic film had ended and the crowd began to emerge on the street, sullen, angry, ungratified.† (source)ungratified = not satisfiedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in ungratified means not and reverses the meaning of gratified. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Finally, in despair, she ended up in her old denim maternity jumper, gratifyingly loose, which she had sworn she'd never wear again.† (source)
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The most effective of these causes are the great national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies.† (source)
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I was gratified to see genuine surprise and pleasure.† (source)gratified = gave or received what was desired; or pleased
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I was beginning to think that I was the subject of some existentialist experiment in permanently delayed gratification when Dr. Maria showed up on Friday morning, sniffed around me for a minute, and told me I was good to go.† (source)
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