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displeased

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Word definitions for displeased in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Bonner was displeased by Neeman's remarks. ▪ Sarah seemed displeased but did not say anything to me. ▪ Several readers were displeased about the photos that accompanied the story. ▪ Singer was displeased with Barbra ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Displease \Dis*please"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Displeased ; p. pr. & vb. n. Displeasing .] [OF. desplaisir, whence F. d['e]plaisir displeasure; pref. des- (L. dis-) + plaisir to please. See Please , and cf. Displeasure .] To make not pleased; to excite ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: displease )

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure [ant: pleased ]

Usage examples of displeased.

Catholics were neither surprised nor displeased, that a people so deeply infected with the Nestorian and Eutychian errors had been delivered by Christ and his mother into the hands of the infidels.

But Shakespeare knew he might have met with Ingram Frizer and his knife had he displeased the two powerful Englishmen.

I have learned that you do not fling your hips about in such a manner unless you are displeased with me or the queen.

Perhaps she had never heard how the Beykaskh made gates of iron and boiled water to make them move, or how the Ila, displeased, flung deposed ministers into the works of those machines.

Furthermore, Jagiello is not used to driving in England: Lithuania is an aristocratic country where the common people get out of the way, and when the slow wagon from Petersfield declined to pull over he was so displeased that he determined to shave it very close, by way of reproof.

The major started to close the door to dress but Luis gave him a displeased glance, that he would not care to linger outside a shut door, waiting.

Sir Margate returned stiffly, openly displeased at having his private tete-a-tete interrupted.

Because man should always be displeased at having sinned, for if he were to be pleased thereat, he would for this very reason fall into sin and lose the fruit of pardon.

In this way a man may be displeased at having sinned, and be pleased at his displeasure together with his hope for pardon, so that his very sorrow is a matter of joy.

It had before caused a quarrel with his son-in-law, and occasioned remonstrances from his truest friends, which produced no other effect than that of making him displeased with them, and more dissatisfied with himself.

I have to be damned careful in complaining about anything, lest my complaint be the cause for a poor bastard of an underservant to suffer wealed, bruised, bleeding flesh or broken bones, simply on account of His Grace being displeased in some more than likely trivial way.

Harte, looking at the others: but he said no more, and when first Allen and then Graham explained that in the outlying provinces of the Turkish empire the valis, pashas, agas and beys, though in principle subject to the Sultan, often behaved like independent rulers, increasing their territories by usurpation or by making open war upon one another, he looked displeased.

It wagged the displeased head and it listened to the following commentaries of the psychologist.

After this sharp dialogue I left him, and travelling post I set out, displeased with myself for having given such advantages to a man wholly unworthy of them.

Displeased that the lead should be withdrawn from him, he turned to Clara and related one of the after-dinner anecdotes of Dr.