Looking back, though, I think ungratifying is the wrong word.    From Wordnik.com.  [What have I got myself into? Part 3] Reference

He had spent decades teaching in the university, yet he considered it “a burdensome, ungratifying business.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Euclid’s Window] Reference

Work from there and create a win-win situation rather than a silly and ungratifying win-lose scenario. development.    From Wordnik.com.  [notes from the peanut gallery] Reference

Thus the presenting terror of lesbianism, which in this case signified reengulfment in ungratifying symbiosis with her mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinical Work with Adolescents] Reference

Take away hope, and life, with all its fascinating variety of opportunities and experiences, reduces to mere existence—uninteresting, ungratifying, bleak, drab and repellent, a burden and a pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Courage To Be Christian] Reference

Last Chapter is heavy with remorse and pain, and when Peter Torbiörnsson finally confronts Thomas Borge -- the Sandinista probably most responsible for ordering the slaughter in the press conference -- the results are ungratifying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stewart Nusbaumer: Film Reviews: After the Wars] Reference

Yes, parenting can be menial, repetitive, boring and at times ungratifying.    From Wordnik.com.  [NEWS.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

Then they branched out on their own, doing the clubs-soul-destroying, ungratifying work-until they met up with Dylan and were asked to back him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expecting Rain] Reference

The money I want badly, while praise, although it will not be ungratifying, I am sufficiently philosophical to get along very comfortably without.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman in Battle: A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, Confederate States Army. In Which Is Given Full Descriptions of the Numerous Battles in which She Participated as a Confederate Officer; of Her Perilous Performances as a Spy, as a Bearer of Despatches, as a Secret-Service Agent, and as a Blockade-Runner; of Her Adventures Behind the Scenes at Washington, including the Bond Swindle; of her Career as a Bounty and Substitute Broker in New York; of Her Travels in Europe and South America; Her Mining Adventures on the Pacific Slope; Her Residence among the Mormons; Her Love Affairs, Courtships, Marriages, &c., &c.] Reference

As I was reckoned an uncommonly well-educated boy, it may not be ungratifying to the admirers of the present system of education to pause here for a moment, and recal what I then knew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pelham — Complete] Reference

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I'm still getting used to the 24 hour clock), and as you might have guessed, it was the afforemention ungratifying experience of the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [What have I got myself into? Part 3] Reference

But, as this condition of human society preserves us in comparative innocence, and renders the social arrangement in the midst of which we exist, to a certain degree a soothing and agreeable spectacle, so on the other hand it is not less true that its immediate tendency is, to clip the wings of the thinking principle within us, and plunge the members of the community in which we live into a barren and ungratifying mediocrity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries] Reference

107 “a burdensome, ungratifying business”: Ibid., p.    From Wordnik.com.  [Euclid’s Window] Reference

Endings that are unbelievable, empty, unwanted, ungratifying and yet, somehow, “so right”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nervous Breakdown] Reference