Displease
[dɪs'pliːz] or [dɪs'pliz]
Definition
(v. t.) To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at. It usually expresses less than to anger, vex, irritate, or provoke.
(v. t.) To fail to satisfy; to miss of.
(v. i.) To give displeasure or offense.
Checker: Ronnie
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Offend, dissatisfy, disgust, give offence to.[2]. Provoke, irritate, vex, chagrin, affront, pique, chafe, fret, anger, nettle, make angry.
Checker: Millicent
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See PLEASE]
Typist: Yvette
Definition
v.t. to offend: to make angry in a slight degree: to be disagreeable to.—v.i. to raise aversion.—n. Displeas′ance (Spens.) displeasure.—adj. Displeas′ant (obs.).—p.adj. Displeased′ vexed annoyed.—adv. Displeas′edly.—n. Displeas′edness.—p.adj. Displeas′ing causing displeasure: giving offence.—adv. Displeas′ingly.—n. Displeas′ingness.
Typist: Merritt
Examples
- Do I displease your eyes _much_? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- You spoke up just as you used to do, when anything was said to displease you. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And when I speak thus I have no impression that I displease God by my words; that I am either impious or impatient, irreligious or sacrilegious. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- What had I been saying to displease you? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- It will not surprise you, it will not displease you. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But for very shame, and the fear that it might displease him, I could have held him round the neck and cried. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He half feared to displease him; but he trusted that his generous kindness would be administered so delicately, as not to excite repulse. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Two things displeased Cedric in this speech. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Once--unknown, and unloved, I held him harsh and strange; the low stature, the wiry make, the angles, the darkness, the manner, displeased me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Everybody tittered, and I was told that Mr. Conkling was displeased. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Not that Emmy, being made aware of the honest Major's passion, rebuffed him in any way, or felt displeased with him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She was displeased at the personal character Mr. Thornton affixed to what she had said. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But I was so much displeased, that I entreated Glumdalclitch to contrive some excuse for not seeing that young lady any more. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- She was displeased; I thought unreasonably so: I thought her, on a thousand occasions, unnecessarily scrupulous and cautious: I thought her even cold. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I know what reward I will claim--one displeasing to Moore, and agreeable to myself. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But I will make no further remarks if they are so displeasing to you, though why they should be displeasing I cannot conceive. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- A magnificent feast delights us, and a sordid one displeases. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- His manner of speaking displeases. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A quarrel with one person gives us a hatred for the whole family, though entirely innocent of that, which displeases us. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Whether it pleases him or displeases him, I must maintain my rights and Ada's. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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