But the major's face was impenetrable and his answer unsatisfactory.

The more honest - but ultimately unsatisfactory - answer would be, "Whatever one you find on the shelf."

My brother addressed several of these fugitives and got unsatisfactory answers from most.

The staff were polite but when asked why there was no sign on the shop door, we got a rather unsatisfactory answer.

"We will see," was all Milisant would promise, an unsatisfactory answer at best.

The short and unsatisfactory answer to that question is wholesale disillusionment.

She asked Slant questions about his past but received only brief and unsatisfactory answers.

And the Executioner had to be content with that unsatisfactory answer once more.

I found your answer unsatisfactory for me or anyone in school.

Then he'd scribble hurried and unsatisfactory answers to all of them.