Sample Sentences forgratification (editor-reviewed)
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To my gratification she arrived on time.gratification = great satisfaction
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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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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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...much more gratified I had my agent Susan Bergholz providing for me rather than a husband. (source)
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Do not imagine, Miss Bennet, that your ambition will ever be gratified. (source)gratified = having received what was desired
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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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It's often suggested that as a culture, we're only interested in immediate gratification.† (source)
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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)standard 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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The particular residents had fluttered gratifyingly in response.† (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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Bud is gratified, but not that impressed.† (source)
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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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