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verb

Displease v. t. (past & past part. displeased; pres. part. displeasing)

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. "God was displeased with this thing." "Wilt thou be displeased at us forever?" "This virtuous plaster will displease Your tender sides." "Adversity is so wholesome... why should we be displeased therewith?"

To fail to satisfy; to miss of. (Obs.) "I shall displease my ends else."

Synonyms: To offend; disgust; vex; annoy; dissatisfy; chafe; anger; provoke; affront.

Displease v. i. To give displeasure or offense. (Obs.)

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"Displease" Quotes from Famous Books

... you would, mother, and it would make me stronger. I'm so glad. I didn't want to displease you. I wanted you to feel that I was doing right. It will be lighter now; I sha'n't mind what anybody says if you're with me, mother. Now everything will come out right; I know it will. And if it does, if father gets strong, just out of thankfulness, I'll ...

— Thoroughbreds • W. A. Fraser

... immediately in charge of these institutions are kind-hearted and humane, and are endeavoring to do the best they can, with the means at their disposal. After saying that, I propose, without any regard as to whom it may please or displease, to point out candidly what seems to me inexcusable thoughtlessness and grievous errors in the treatment of the ...

— White Slaves • Louis A Banks

... have said nothing, Sir Wycherly, to displease you," returned Mildred, with emphasis; though her face was a thousand times handsomer than ever, with the blushes that suffused it. "Nothing would pain me more, than to suppose I had done so improper a thing. I merely meant ...

— The Two Admirals • J. Fenimore Cooper

... settings occur to me: those of several of Schubert's songs ("Erlking," "Gretchen," "The Young Nun," and a few others) that I wrote for Fraulein Genast. They are not mere manufactured arrangements, and might not altogether displease musicians of fine feeling. The manuscript of the scores was left with Seifriz in Lowenberg. If any publisher should feel inclined to accept them they are ...

— Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 2: "From Rome to the End" • Franz Liszt; letters collected by La Mara and translated

... family—a situation that even though it involved us in no end of hard work, had its compensations. Living off in suburbs as we did, you can have no idea of what a comfort it was to us not to be at the mercy of a cook who would threaten to leave us every time anything happened to displease her, such as an extra meal to be cooked in emergency cases, or the failure of the cooking-sherry to come up to the exalted standards of her taste as a connoisseur in wines, and hard as the housework was, as I look back upon it now, I ...

— The Autobiography of Methuselah • John Kendrick Bangs

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