Displease
verb
To make someone unhappy or annoyed.
It would displease me if you arrive late to the meeting.
verb
To cause to feel disapproval, dislike, or annoyance.
Your careless actions could displease your parents.
Often appears as...
- displease greatly
- displease someone
verb
To be unpleasant to someone.
The smell of the room will displease the guests.
Often appears as...
- smell displease
- sight displease
verb
To make someone unhappy or annoyed.
It would displease me if you arrive late to the meeting.
verb
To cause to feel disapproval, dislike, or annoyance.
Your careless actions could displease your parents.
Often appears as...
- displease greatly
- displease someone
verb
To be unpleasant to someone.
The smell of the room will displease the guests.
Often appears as...
- smell displease
- sight displease
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Use 'displease' to express a mild form of unhappiness, not intense anger.
Her sarcastic remarks displeased me.
Pro Tip 2/3Formal Context
'Displease' works well in formal settings like professional emails or meetings.
It would displease our clients if we postponed the launch.
Pro Tip 3/3Subjective Feeling
Often used to talk about personal feelings rather than general opinions.
You would displease me if you didn't consider my advice.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Use 'displease' to express a mild form of unhappiness, not intense anger.
Her sarcastic remarks displeased me.
Pro Tip 2/3Formal Context
'Displease' works well in formal settings like professional emails or meetings.
It would displease our clients if we postponed the launch.
Pro Tip 3/3Subjective Feeling
Often used to talk about personal feelings rather than general opinions.
You would displease me if you didn't consider my advice.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Use 'displease' to express a mild form of unhappiness, not intense anger.
Her sarcastic remarks displeased me.
Pro Tip 2/3Formal Context
'Displease' works well in formal settings like professional emails or meetings.
It would displease our clients if we postponed the launch.
Pro Tip 3/3Subjective Feeling
Often used to talk about personal feelings rather than general opinions.
You would displease me if you didn't consider my advice.
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Video examples
Kimberley Motley: How I...
and unfortunately, a few months ago he wrote an article that displeased people in the government. As a result, he was temporarily detained and he was illegally exiled out of the country. I represent Matt, and after dealing with the government, I was able to get legal acknowledgment
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Creature Cures PIPE...
belief that most illness is caused by witchcraft or the spirits of displeased ancestors it is the job of the sangoma as a medium between the spirit world and our own to appease the ancestors or chase away the evil forces causing the
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Why did this Leopard...
all of a sudden poses a threat to the mother. She almost takes the place of the mother, which obviously wouldn't really be tolerated. When she picks up her daughter's scent, the mother seems displeased.
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Kimberley Motley: How I...
and unfortunately, a few months ago he wrote an article that displeased people in the government. As a result, he was temporarily detained and he was illegally exiled out of the country. I represent Matt, and after dealing with the government, I was able to get legal acknowledgment
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Creature Cures PIPE...
belief that most illness is caused by witchcraft or the spirits of displeased ancestors it is the job of the sangoma as a medium between the spirit world and our own to appease the ancestors or chase away the evil forces causing the
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Why did this Leopard...
all of a sudden poses a threat to the mother. She almost takes the place of the mother, which obviously wouldn't really be tolerated. When she picks up her daughter's scent, the mother seems displeased.
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Quote examples
Wallace Shawn
American Actor
When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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Marquis de Lafayette
French Revolutionary
I had displeased the jacobins by blaming their aristocratic usurpation of legitimate powers; the priests of all sorts by claiming religious liberty; the anarchists by repressing them; and the conspirators by rejecting their offers.
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Joko Beck
American Educator
We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us pain or pleasure, avoiding one and pursuing the other.
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William J. H. Boetcker
American Clergyman
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
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Philippe Petit
French Celebrity
My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.
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Hansika Motwani
Indian Actress
My parents have put in a lot of efforts for me. Whatever I am and wherever I am is because of them. I won't do anything to displease them.
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Michelangelo
Italian Artist
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
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George Whitefield
English Clergyman
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French Writer
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Francis Bacon
English Philosopher
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
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Wallace Shawn
American Actor
When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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Marquis de Lafayette
French Revolutionary
I had displeased the jacobins by blaming their aristocratic usurpation of legitimate powers; the priests of all sorts by claiming religious liberty; the anarchists by repressing them; and the conspirators by rejecting their offers.
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Joko Beck
American Educator
We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us pain or pleasure, avoiding one and pursuing the other.
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William J. H. Boetcker
American Clergyman
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
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Philippe Petit
French Celebrity
My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.
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Hansika Motwani
Indian Actress
My parents have put in a lot of efforts for me. Whatever I am and wherever I am is because of them. I won't do anything to displease them.
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Michelangelo
Italian Artist
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
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George Whitefield
English Clergyman
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French Writer
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Francis Bacon
English Philosopher
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
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