Displease

/dɪsˈpliːz/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To make not pleased; to cause a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to vex slightly..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To make not pleased; to cause a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to vex slightly.
2. (intransitive) To give displeasure or offense.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To fail to satisfy; to miss of.

Example Sentences

The boy's rudeness displeased me.

I felt displeased with the boy.

Wilt thou be displeased at us forever: and wilt thou stretch out thy wrath from one generation to another?

How can an operator be, at the same time, top for overall satisfaction and bottom for value for money? I turned to Anthony Smith for the answer, leaning on his 20 years running Transport Focus and its predecessors. It's commuters, he explained. "You can't please commuters, you can only not displease them."

I shall displease my ends else.

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Word Forms

• displeases
• displeasing
• displeased

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